Antonyms for civilized
ˈsɪv əˌlaɪzdciv·i·lized

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1. civilized

   Antonyms:
   atrocious, barbarian, barbaric, barbarous, brutal, cruel, inhuman, merciless, rude, savage, uncivilized, uncouth, untamed

   Synonyms:
   courtly, cultured, delicate, elegant, graceful, humane, nice, polite, refined, tender, urbane

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. civilized, civilisedadjective

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

   "terrorist acts that shocked the civilized world"

   Antonyms:
   nonliterate, barbarous, unrefined, barbaric, noncivilized, barbarian, noncivilised, uncivilized, wild, primitive, savage, uncivilised, preliterate

   Synonyms:
   civilised, genteel, cultivated, polite, cultured

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

   marked by refinement in taste and manners

   "cultivated speech"; "cultured Bostonians"; "cultured tastes"; "a genteel old lady"; "polite society"

   Antonyms:
   nonliterate, barbaric, barbarian, barbarous, preliterate, savage, uncivilised, unrefined, wild, primitive, uncivilized, noncivilized, noncivilised

   Synonyms:
   civilised, civil, genteel, cultivated, polite, cultured

How to use civilized in a sentence?

1. President Trump in a statement:

   Today's chemical attack in Syria against innocent people, including women and children, is reprehensible and cannot be ignored by the civilized world, the United States stands with our allies across the globe to condemn this intolerable attack.

2. Oleksandr Kovalov:

   Here were conditions for a mutual ceasefire, a civilized surrender of Azovstal, civilized conditions for our prisoners of war, and an exchange.

3. Oleksandr Kovalov:

   These are the moments that we were worried about, a moment of trust. When we did everything so that the two sides came together, looked into each other’s eyes, the Russian side promised that there would be a civilized exit for our soldiers.

4. Émile Durkheim:

   It is a quite remarkable fact that the great religions of the most civilized peoples are more deeply fraught with sadness than the simpler beliefs of earlier societies. This certainly does not mean that the current of pessimism is eventually to submerge the other, but it proves that it does not lose ground and that it does not seem destined to disappear.

5. El Paso in which O'Rourke:

   Nobody spoke in the van. I didn't speak. I was pissed. I was pissed at Beto ORourke, I was pissed at the world, I was pissed at that question. I was pissed that we were even having this conversation -- like, how in the world could we be asking ourselves these questions as civilized, intelligent human beings, who report the news, make the news, El Paso in which O'Rourke know, report on the policy, make the policy ? Why are we even asking, is Donald Trump racist ? Did Donald Trump have something to do with this ? Could Donald Trump make this better ? i think I was mostly mad at El Paso in which O'Rourke : Why have I not been able to figure this out ? And why have I not been able to make these connections more clear ? Why have we not been able to change this ?

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