# cultivated

Pronunciation: say "KUL-ti-vay-tid" /ˈkʌltɪveɪtɪd/

## Adjective

1. Grown deliberately by people through farming or gardening, rather than occurring naturally in the wild.
   - Simple: Grown on purpose by people, not found growing wild.
   - _Cultivated blueberries are larger and sweeter than the small wild ones in the forest._
   - _Most of the herbs on grocery shelves are cultivated rather than foraged._
2. Showing refinement, good taste, and education in one's manner, speech, or interests.
   - Simple: Polite, well-educated, and having good taste.
   - _Her cultivated taste in music ranged from baroque opera to modern jazz._
   - _He spoke in the cultivated tones of someone raised among diplomats._
3. Of land, prepared and worked for growing crops; farmed rather than left wild.
   - Simple: Used for farming, with crops grown on it.
   - _Only a small fraction of the region's cultivated acreage now produces wheat._
   - _Centuries of labor had turned the steep hillsides into cultivated terraces._

## Verb

4. Simple past and past participle of cultivate. — simple past and past participle of cultivate
   - Simple: Simple past and past participle of cultivate. Use this form for the action done in the past.
   - _The monks cultivated these hillsides for centuries._
   - _Over the years she has cultivated close ties with local leaders._

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/cultivated (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).