cultured

1. 1
   adjective

   Polite, well-educated, and showing good taste in art, ideas, and manners.

   Like someone who has spent years learning about books, music, and good manners.

   Her cultured manners impressed everyone at the dinner.

   He was a calm, cultured man who spent his weekends at museums.

   Similarrefined, cultivated, sophisticated, educated, polished

   Oppositeuncultured, unrefined, philistine, boorish

2. 2
   adjective

   Grown or made by people under controlled conditions, not formed in nature.

   Like a plant grown in a greenhouse instead of growing wild outside.

   Cultured pearls are grown on farms instead of forming on their own in the sea.

   Scientists tasted a burger made from cultured meat grown in a lab.

   Similarsynthetic, artificial

   Oppositenatural

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3. 3
   verb

   Past form of culture. Use it when the growing or shaping already happened.

   The lab cultured the sample to see what bacteria would grow.

   They cultured the cells for several days before testing them.

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