Word Study
cultured
CIDE DICTIONARY
cultured, a.
- Under culture; cultivated. Shenstone. [1913 Webster]
- Characterized by mental and moral training; disciplined; refined; well-educated. [1913 Webster]"The sense of beauty in nature, even among cultured people, is less often met with than other mental endowments." [1913 Webster]"The cunning hand and cultured brain." [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
cultured, adj. having refined taste and manners and a good education.
Idiom
cultured pearl a pearl formed by an oyster after the insertion of a foreign body into its shell.
THESAURUS
cultured
abstruse, advanced, ameliorated, beautified, bettered, civilized, converted, cultivated, dainty, deep, delicate, developed, discriminating, distingue, educated, elegant, embellished, encyclopedic, enhanced, enlightened, enriched, erudite, fastidious, fine, genteel, gentle, gentlemanlike, gentlemanly, graceful, gracile, gracious, highbred, improved, ladylike, learned, lettered, literate, nice, pansophic, perfected, polished, polyhistoric, polymath, polymathic, profound, refined, reformed, scholarly, scholastic, sophisticated, studious, subtle, transfigured, transformed, urbane, well-bred, well-brought-up, wiseFor further exploring for "cultured" in Webster Dictionary Online
