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cultured
[ kuhl-cherd ]
adjective
- having or characterized by culture; refined; enlightened:
civilized and cultured peoples; music and other cultured pursuits.
Synonyms: genteel, elegant, sophisticated, polished
- artificially nurtured or grown:
cultured bacteria.
- cultivated; tilled.
cultured
/ ˈkʌltʃəd /
adjective
- showing or having good taste, manners, upbringing, and education
- artificially grown or synthesized
cultured pearls
- sport of superior quality, as though the product of special training
a cultured backhand
a cultured left foot
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Other Words From
- non·cultured adjective
- over·cultured adjective
- semi·cultured adjective
- well-cultured adjective
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Example Sentences
Just this year, researchers from Japan announced that after more than a decade of trying, they had finally isolated and cultured Lokiarchaeota — archaea of the type believed to have been part of the original eukaryotic partnership.
That, it seems to me, is the attitude of the human mind, even the greatest and most cultured, toward God.
Davis learned the microbes were being entombed in the salt crystals—and could be cultured.
Scary radiation effects seen in lab animals or cultured cells only gives hints to possible risks.
There are all sorts of projects—all over the world—devoted to the future of food, from cultured meat and fish to nanoparticles that help plants grow in the desert to factories raising millions of bugs for protein.
Playboy: So you got rich, cultured, secure—then what happened?
The idea was conceived by a food scientist at Brigham Young University, who added dry ice to the cultured dairy on a lark.
Stephens, a sociologist at Cardiff University, has spent years studying the development of “cultured” meat.
Because we live in a cultural stereotype and only men watch sports, only women are cultured, Mars, Venus, etc.
Yet Germany before the Nazi takeover was the most cultured, advanced, and cosmopolitan society in the world.
Rullock, the cultured man, was hurt when he heard education mentioned lightly.
The educated, cultured man never loses his temper, seldom utters an angry word.
She loved music, and a sweet, gracious woman whose music wins the most cultured sang song after song.
These tracts are valuable as eye-openers to uneducated workmen, but they possess no merit whatsoever for cultured liberals.
Friendship with such cultured, interesting people would broaden the horizon of my whole life.
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