cultivated
Tended with care
Cultivated describes land that has been prepared and maintained for growing crops, as opposed to wild or fallow ground.
Extended to people, cultivated means refined through education and exposure to arts and ideas—someone with cultivated tastes has developed sophisticated preferences.
The word implies deliberate improvement: a cultivated accent, a cultivated image, a cultivated friendship.
To be cultivated is to have been tended, whether you're soil or a person.
Smooth, refined, accomplished
- sophisticatedWorldly and cultured
- urbaneRefined and courteous
- elegantGracefully refined, tasteful
- cosmopolitanCulturally sophisticated, internationally fluent
tasteful · graceful · genteel · suave · debonair · worldly · discerning · chic
Reached full size
- propagatedSpread or reproduced widely
- bredRaised or propagated
- clonedReproduced without mating
- fermentedTransformed by microbial action
incubated · grafted · hybridized · germinated · cultured · inoculated · laboratory · microbe
Having much knowledge
- scholarlyMarked by serious learning
- eruditeProfoundly knowledgeable
- intellectualConcerning thought and reason
- knowledgeableHaving extensive information
literate · well-read · informed · enlightened · studious · academic · bookish · cultured
polished
Smooth, refined, accomplished
- sophisticatedWorldly and cultured
- urbaneRefined and courteous
- elegantGracefully refined, tasteful
cosmopolitan · tasteful · graceful · genteel · suave · debonair · worldly · discerning · chic · stylish
grown
Reached full size
- propagatedSpread or reproduced widely
- bredRaised or propagated
- clonedReproduced without mating
fermented · incubated · grafted · hybridized · germinated · cultured · inoculated · laboratory · microbe · bacteria
learned
Having much knowledge
- scholarlyMarked by serious learning
- eruditeProfoundly knowledgeable
- intellectualConcerning thought and reason
knowledgeable · literate · well-read · informed · enlightened · studious · academic · bookish · cultured · lettered
farmed
Grew crops commercially
irrigated · fertilized · tended · tilled · planted · grown · organic · crop · yield · vineyard
nurtured
Cared for supportively
practiced · trained · groomed · refined · improved · perfected · encouraged · promoted · pursued · maintained
- refinedrefined, polite, proper, gracious, elegant
- farm adjectivesagrarian, arable, fallow, fertile, harvested
- worldlyworldly, cosmopolitan, globe-trotter, globetrotter, world traveler
- fungimushroom, mushrooms, toadstool, toadstools, yeast
- landscapesmountain, valley, hills, landscape, scenery
- academicscholarly, academic, intellectual, erudite, learned
cultivatedwild
Not domesticated or controlled
uncultivated · feral · untamed · fallow · untilled
cultivateduncultured
Lacking refinement or education
uncivilized · unrefined · barbarous · boorish · crude
cultivatedneglected
Not given proper attention
spontaneous · natural · innate · accidental · unintentional
- cultivated tasteLearned appreciation for finer things
- crop cultivationGrowing food plants deliberately
- shifting cultivationMigratory crop-growing practice
- rice cultivationGrowing grain in paddies
- plant cultivationGrowing flora intentionally
- land cultivationPreparing soil for planting
cultivate, cultivation, cultivating, cultivator, cultivates, cultivators, cultivations