Meaning & use
cultivated
Having refined manners, taste, and knowledge, typically as a result of education and exposure to culture.
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Her cultivated taste in art came from years of visiting museums with her parents.
He spoke in a cultivated accent that hinted at an expensive education.
A note on using this word
Cultivated also describes land or plants that have been deliberately farmed, as opposed to growing wild.
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Words with an opposite meaning
uncultivatedunrefined
Another way to use it
2. adjective
(of land or plants) prepared and used for growing crops, rather than wild.
Neat rows of cultivated fields stretched to the horizon.
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