civilized

Meaning of civilized

verb
  1. To educate or enlighten a person or people to a perceived higher standard of behaviour.
  2. To introduce or impose the standards of one civilisation upon another civilization, group or person, arguably with the intent of achieving a perceived higher standard of behavior.
  3. To bring from a state of savagery to an educated or refined state.
adjective
  1. Having a highly developed society or culture.
  2. Showing evidence of moral and intellectual advancement; humane, reasonable, ethical.
  3. Marked by refinement in taste and manners.

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Hyphenation of civilized

civ-i-lized

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
  • civilized is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

civilized synonyms

Meaning civilised:

cultivated, cultured, genteel, polite

Words that rhyme with civilized

Hebraized, Judaized, algebraized, archaized, baized, hebraized, paized, unbaized, Arabized, arabized, dissyllabized, disyllabized, syllabized, Anglicized, Arabicized, Atticized, Gallicized, Gnosticized, Gothicized, Graecized, Grecized, Hamiticized, Hibernicized, Hispanicized, Ionicized, Iricized, Islamicized, Persicized, Scotticized, Sinicized, Slavonicized, Turkicized, aerobicized, aestheticized, anglicized, anticized, antisepticized, arabicized, arcticized, asepticized, atticized, catholicized, causticized, classicized, cliticized, cosmeticized, criticized, depoliticized, domesticized, elasticized

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