Definition of civilized

"civilized" in the verb sense

1. educate, school, train, cultivate, civilize, civilise

teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment

"Cultivate your musical taste"

"Train your tastebuds"

"She is well schooled in poetry"

2. civilize, civilise

raise from a barbaric to a civilized state

"The wild child found wandering in the forest was gradually civilized"

"civilized" in the adjective sense

1. civilized, civilised

having a high state of culture and development both social and technological

"terrorist acts that shocked the civilized world"

2. civilized, civilised, cultivated, cultured, genteel, polite

marked by refinement in taste and manners

"cultivated speech"

"cultured Bostonians"

"cultured tastes"

"a genteel old lady"

"polite society"

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Quotations for civilized

Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune. [ Thomas Fuller ]

It is in refinement and elegance that the civilized man differs from the savage. [ Dr. Johnson ]

With an evening coat and a white tie, even a stock broker can gain a reputation for being civilized. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age. [ Macaulay ]

If one could only teach the English how to talk and the Irish how to listen society would be quite civilized. [ Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband ]

Be neither too early in the fashion, nor too long out of it, nor too precisely in it; what custom hath civilized is become decent, till then ridiculous; where the eye is the jury thy apparel is the evidence. [ Quarles ]

Civilized society feels that manners are of more importance than morals, and the highest respectability is of less value than the possession of a good chef. Even the cardinal virtues cannot atone for cold entrees, nor an irreproachable private life for a bad dinner and poor wines. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune; such is the extensiveness thereof, that it stoopeth so low as brute beasts, yet mounteth as high as angels; horses will do more for a whistle than for a whip, and by hearing their bells, jingle away their weariness. [ T. Fuller ]

Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there. That is the reason why people who live out of town are so uncivilized. There are only two ways of becoming civilized. One is by being cultured, the other is by being corrupt. Country people have no opportunity of being either, so they stagnate. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

civilized in Scrabble®

The word civilized is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required. Because it is longer than 7 letters, you would have to play off an existing word or do it in several moves.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 24

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters civilized:

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civilized in Words With Friends™

The word civilized is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required. Because it is longer than 7 letters, you would have to play off an existing word or do it in several moves.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 27

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters civilized:

CIVILIZED
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Words within the letters of civilized

2 letter words in civilized (2 words)

3 letter words in civilized (9 words)

4 letter words in civilized (15 words)

5 letter words in civilized (5 words)

8 letter words in civilized (1 word)

9 letter words in civilized (1 word)

civilized + 1 blank (1 word)

civilized + 2 blanks (4 words)

Words containing the sequence civilized

Words that start with civilized (1 word)

Words with civilized in them (1 word)

Word Growth involving civilized

Shorter words in civilized

civil civilize

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Longer words containing civilized

decivilized

halfcivilized

noncivilized

overcivilized

recivilized

semicivilized

ultracivilized

uncivilized