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cultivated 音标拼音: [k'ʌltəv ,etəd] [k'ʌltɪv ,etɪd] a. 耕耘的,栽植的,有教养的 耕耘的,栽植的,有教养的 cultivated adj 1: ( of land or fields) prepared for raising crops by plowing or fertilizing; " cultivated land" [ ant: { uncultivated}] 2: no longer in the natural state; developed by human care and for human use; " cultivated roses"; " cultivated blackberries" 3: marked by refinement in taste and manners; " cultivated speech"; " cultured Bostonians"; " cultured tastes"; " a genteel old lady"; " polite society" [ synonym: { civilized}, { civilised}, { cultivated}, { cultured}, { genteel}, { polite}] cultivated \ cultivated\ adj. 1. marked by refinement in taste and manners; as, cultivated tastes in art. Syn: civilized, cultured, genteel, polite. [ WordNet 1. 5] 2. used for raising crops; -- of land or soil. [ WordNet 1. 5]
Cultivate \ Cul" ti* vate\ ( k? l" t?- v? t), v. t. [ imp. & p. p. { Cultivated} (- v?` t? d); p. pr. & vb. n. { Cultivating} (- v?`- t? ng).] [ LL. cultivatus, p. p. of cultivare to cultivate, fr. cultivus cultivated, fr. L. cultus, p. p. of colere to till, cultivate. Cf. { Colony}.] 1. To bestow attention, care, and labor upon, with a view to valuable returns; to till; to fertilize; as, to cultivate soil. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To direct special attention to; to devote time and thought to; to foster; to cherish. [ 1913 Webster] Leisure . . . to cultivate general literature. -- Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster] 3. To seek the society of; to court intimacy with. [ 1913 Webster] I ever looked on Lord Keppel as one of the greatest and best men of his age; and I loved and cultivated him accordingly. -- Burke. [ 1913 Webster] 4. To improve by labor, care, or study; to impart culture to; to civilize; to refine. [ 1913 Webster] To cultivate the wild, licentious savage. -- Addison. [ 1913 Webster] The mind of man hath need to be prepared for piety and virtue; it must be cultivated to the end. -- Tillotson. [ 1913 Webster] 5. To raise or produce by tillage; to care for while growing; as, to cultivate corn or grass. [ 1913 Webster] 60 Moby Thesaurus words for " cultivated": abstruse, advanced, ameliorated, aristocratic, beautified, bettered, civilized, converted, cosmopolitan, cultured, dainty, deep, delicate, developed, discriminating, educated, elegant, embellished, encyclopedic, enhanced, 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, soignee, sophisticated, studious, suave, subtle, transfigured, transformed, urbane, well- bred, well- brought- up, wise
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