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civilized

[siv-uh-lahyzd]

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adjective

having an advanced or humane culture, society, etc.

polite; well-bred; refined.

of or pertaining to civilized people: The civilized world must fight ignorance.

easy to manage or control; well organized or ordered: The car is quiet and civilized, even in sharp turns.

Origin:
1605–15; civilize + -ed²

Related forms

civ·i·liz·ed·ness

[siv-uh-lahy-zid-nis, -lahyzd] , noun

half-civ·il·ized, adjective

hy·per·civ·i·lized, adjective

non·civ·i·lized, adjective

sub·civ·i·lized, adjective

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su·per·civ·i·lized, adjective

ul·tra·civ·i·lized, adjective

well-civ·i·lized, adjective

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Civilized is always a great word to know.

So is flibbertigibbet. Does it mean:

a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.

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Example Sentences

Surveys show that people who suffer road rage and airplane anxiety yearn for more civilized ways to travel.

Spending money you do not have does not make this a civilized country it makes you broke.

But more than that, it has no place in civilized society.

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Surveys show that people who suffer road rage and airplane anxiety yearn for more civilized ways to travel.

Spending money you do not have does not make this a civilized country it makes you broke.

But more than that, it has no place in civilized society.

See a photographic expedition into the wild heart of a civilized continent.

We civilized men, on the other hand, do our utmost to check the process of elimination.

The fact that you have had ongoing terror in this beautiful, civilized part of the world was fascinating to me.

The traditional answer is a hip flask filled with whisky, but feeding my monkey will be so much more civilized with this tiny cup.

Civilized societies make sure that when people are in desperate need of help, the money is there to take care of them.

Eliot's vision of the paralyzed, self-conscious psyche of the modern civilized.

Don't let these cold blooded murderers and thugs scot-free in the public and the wider civilized world.

See wildlife photographers set a camera ambush that catches a wild adult tiger indulging in a rather civilized midday soak.

The health statistics of all civilized countries have improved greatly in the past century.

Then came the application of that knowledge, and a far, far better and more civilized world resulted.

The vulgar plastic slabs being sold as digital picture frames remain too ugly and bulky for a civilized drawing room.

So now the adults are getting together to work it all out, in a civilized manner, over espresso.

The entire civilized world cannot live without products that have grown out of discoveries in these fields.

Hopefully they will not cling to their land galleons when they return to the civilized world.

There's an energy created by sliding across snow on the edge of the civilized world where the air smells of possibility.

Killing an embryo to obtain body parts for other human beings is totally unethical and barbaric in a civilized society.

America, it seems, is finally catching up to the rest of the civilized world.

It has been the custom in all civilized countries and ages to erect statues to commemorate the deeds and the virtues of the dead.

It was simply what civilized people did to show respect.

No one likes to be civilized at gunpoint, especially if they think they're civilized to begin with.

Even if you stuff it in the trunk, you'll still look eco-chic and civilized.

In a civilized society they are both dis-empowered and equal.

Of course there has to be a civilized side to bush planes as well.

Of course today these things are handled in a more civilized manner.

No civilized society will tolerate its citizens dying in the streets for lack of health care.

Just to let you all know that it is so nice to have the civilized blog postings back.

Smaller penises therefore represent a more civilized and therefore more highly evolved lineage.

Maher arrives in a suit and tie, a bottle of excellent wine in hand, ready for a civilized party.

Runs on any platform unlike other less civilized software.

The people have proven time and again of being incapable of civilized life.

Let us debate in a civilized way that shows respect for all opinions.

Enjoy the castaway ambience, and try to stay civilized.

Arguing in the alternative is a long-established principle of civilized debate.

Somewhat laughable, and in light of how civilized everyone likes to think they are, a fiar bit pathetic.

The third world ghetos everywhere in big european cities, that refuse to integrate in civilized society.

In a civilized society, one is considered not-guilty until ones guilt has been proven.

Let's try to be civilized and show each other cultures respect.

It is a lighter, much more civilized and refined product in general.

The real homelessness is to call civilized that which is barbaric.

Civilized people should be shocked by the notion of border guards crossing borders to execute people.

Japan with all their problems is a better place to visit, and a lot more civilized.

It is the culmination of centuries of endeavor, for civilized nations.

Some people are simply not able to exist in a civilized society, and they have little or no control over that fact.

In more civilized societies population control is more subtle and harder to recognize.

The city invites the people of the civilized world to attend the great fair.

In the days when civilized men believed that the world was flat they.

Many parts of the civilized world have been employing this strategy for decades with dramatic success.

He had visited nearly every civilized portion of the globe and claimed several rulers as his friends.

Of course, cannot get away with that sort of thing anymore, much too civilized nowadays.

It is nice to see someone else also have a civilized view of humanity.

In less civilized venues, this is called blackmail.

My brother uses an antique cigarette case for his and it looks so civilized.

As civilized society leaves them increasingly behind.

Civilized scientists are a credit to their disciplines.

You're absolutely correct that the vast majority of humanity responds to social injustice through civilized means.

Going to funerals and memorial services is part of being a civilized human being.

It's time that civilized countries stop believing in voodoo.

Most civilized and educated people have realized that religion is the root of all war and transgressions toward their fellow man.

Biemiller is civilized and intelligent, but buys into a lot of bad thinking that has wrecked campuses for decades.

The question as to whether torture is too evil for a civilized society to tolerate seems fundamental.

Italy doesn't belong anymore to the civilized part of this world.

Thus the weak members of civilized societies propagate their kind.

Reasonable people can disagree, and civilized people can do so without being disagreeable.

No less would have been reached without murdering anyone by a more civilized movement.

The civilized world needs to reformat the entire system of corrections so that it actually does some correcting.

Apotheker and the board have no place in a civilized society.

The resistance to what works in every other civilized country is a symptom of social pathology.

Death penalty is discredited in any civilized society.

However, the world national authorities do need to ensure that human rights and civilized order is preserved.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

verb (used with object), -lized, -liz·ing.

to bring out of a savage, uneducated, or rude state; make civil; elevate in social and private life; enlighten; refine: Rome civilized the barbarians.

Also, especially British, civ·i·lise.

Origin:
1595–1605; < French civiliser; see civil, -ize

Related forms

civ·i·liz·a·ble, adjective

civ·i·liz·a·to·ry

[siv-uh-lahy-zuh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee] , adjective

civ·i·liz·er, noun

de·civ·i·lize, verb (used with object), -lized, -liz·ing.

non·civ·i·liz·a·ble, adjective

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o·ver·civ·i·lize, verb, -lized, -liz·ing.

un·civ·i·liz·a·ble, adjective

un·civ·i·lize, verb (used with object), -lized, -liz·ing.

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Synonyms
educate, teach, instruct, polish, sophisticate.

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Collins

World English Dictionary

civilized or civilised (ˈsɪvɪˌlaɪzd)

—*adj*
1.	having a high state of culture and social development
2.	cultured; polite: a civilized discussion

civilised or civilised

—*adj*

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Word Origin & History

civilize

c.1600, from Fr. civiliser, lit. "to make citified," from O.Fr. civil, from L. civilis (see civil).

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