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Synonyms for cultivate
ˈkʌl təˌveɪtcul·ti·vate

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Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms5.0 / 4 votes

  1. cultivate

    Synonyms:
    promote, foster, study, improve, fertilize, till, advance, refine, improve, civilize, nourish, cherish

    Antonyms:
    neglect, desert, abandon, stifle, prevent, discourage, abolish, blight, blast, paralyze, eradicate, extirpate, uproot

Princeton's WordNet3.0 / 2 votes

  1. cultivateverb

    foster the growth of

    Synonyms:
    naturalize, tame, school, train, domesticate, civilise, naturalise, work, civilize, educate, crop

  2. cultivate, crop, workverb

    prepare for crops

    "Work the soil"; "cultivate the land"

    Synonyms:
    knead, turn, operate, sour, act, shape, clip, civilise, work out, run, wreak, function, prune, forge, lick, civilize, solve, pasture, trim, browse, figure out, form, naturalise, mould, train, play, naturalize, exploit, go, make, do work, make for, mold, tame, bring, educate, puzzle out, put to work, school, process, crop, work, ferment, domesticate, work on, graze, act upon, cut back, influence, snip, lop, exercise, dress, range

  3. educate, school, train, cultivate, civilize, civiliseverb

    teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment

    "Cultivate your musical taste"; "Train your tastebuds"; "She is well schooled in poetry"

    Synonyms:
    aim, groom, educate, naturalise, civilize, school, develop, discipline, take aim, rail, work, domesticate, check, coach, condition, direct, train, trail, take, naturalize, tame, civilise, crop, prepare

  4. domesticate, cultivate, naturalize, naturalise, tameverb

    adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment

    "domesticate oats"; "tame the soil"

    Synonyms:
    reclaim, educate, naturalise, domesticize, civilize, school, moderate, crop, work, naturalize, domesticise, domesticate, tone down, train, tame, civilise, chasten, subdue

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Dictionary of English Synonymes1.0 / 1 vote

  1. cultivateverb

    Synonyms:
    till, raise crops from

  2. cultivateverb

    Synonyms:
    study, investigate, search into

  3. cultivateverb

    Synonyms:
    improve, refine, elevate, civilize, meliorate, make better

  4. cultivateverb

    Synonyms:
    foster, cherish, promote

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words5.0 / 1 vote

  1. cultivateverb

    Synonyms:
    till

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "cultivate":

    cultivar, cultivating, grow, nurture, nurturing, nurtured, cultivation, foster

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How to use cultivate in a sentence?

  1. The Trump cardWhile Obama:

    You can't run ads telling me you are a regular old hoops-playing, dish-washing, fleece-wearing guy, but quietly cultivate support from those who seek to tear down Terry McAuliffe democracy.

  2. Eugène Ionesco:

    Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

  3. Stephen Covey:

    Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

  4. Selahattin Demirtas:

    No matter how much they attack, without fuelling hatred and anger against each other, we will cultivate brotherhood and live in peace in this country.

  5. Black Hawk:

    The Great Spirit gave it to his children to live upon and cultivate as far as necessary for their subsistence; and so long as they occupy and cultivate it, they have a right to the soil.”


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