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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
cultivated \cultivated\ adjective
1. marked by refinement in taste and manners; as, cultivated tastes in art.
Syn: civilized, cultured, genteel, polite. [WordNet 1.5]
2. used for raising crops; -- of land or soil. [WordNet 1.5]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Cultivate \Cul"ti*vate\ (k?l"t?-v?t), verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Cultivated} (-v?'t?d); p. pr. & vb. n. {Cultivating} (-v?'-t?ng).] [LL. cultivatus, p. p. of cultivare to cultivate, fr. cultivus cultivated, fr. L. cultus, p. p. of colere to till, cultivate. Cf. {Colony}.]
1. To bestow attention, care, and labor upon, with a view to valuable returns; to till; to fertilize; as, to cultivate soil.
2. To direct special attention to; to devote time and thought to; to foster; to cherish.
Leisure . . . to cultivate general literature. --Wordsworth.
3. To seek the society of; to court intimacy with.
I ever looked on Lord Keppel as one of the greatest and best men of his age; and I loved and cultivated him accordingly. --Burke.
4. To improve by labor, care, or study; to impart culture to; to civilize; to refine.
To cultivate the wild, licentious savage. --Addison.
The mind of man hath need to be prepared for piety and virtue; it must be cultivated to the end. --Tillotson.
5. To raise or produce by tillage; to care for while growing; as, to cultivate corn or grass.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
cultivated
adjective
1: (of land or fields) prepared for raising crops by plowing or fertilizing; "cultivated land" [ant: {uncultivated}]
2: no longer in the natural state; developed by human care and for human use; "cultivated roses"; "cultivated blackberries"
3: marked by refinement in taste and manners; "cultivated speech"; "cultured Bostonians"; "cultured tastes"; "a genteel old lady"; "polite society" [syn: {civilized}, {civilised}, {cultured}, {genteel}, {polite}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
60 Moby Thesaurus words for "cultivated": abstruse, advanced, ameliorated, aristocratic, beautified, bettered, civilized, converted, cosmopolitan, cultured, dainty, deep, delicate, developed, discriminating, educated, elegant, embellished, encyclopedic, enhanced, enriched, erudite, fastidious, fine, genteel, gentle, gentlemanlike, gentlemanly, graceful, gracile, gracious, highbred, improved, ladylike, learned, lettered, literate, nice, pansophic, perfected, polished, polyhistoric, polymath, polymathic, profound, refined, reformed, scholarly, scholastic, soignee, sophisticated, studious, suave, subtle, transfigured, transformed, urbane, well-bred, well-brought-up, wise
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