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What is the adjective for civilised?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs civilize and civilise which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

civilized
  1. Having a highly developed society or culture.
  2. Showing evidence of moral and intellectual advancement; humane, reasonable, ethical.
  3. Marked by refinement in taste and manners.
  4. Synonyms:
      5. cultured, cultivated, sophisticated, refined, polished, advanced, genteel, urbane, polite, accomplished, couth, elegant, courteous, mannerly, gracious, civil, gentlemanly, developed, ladylike, decorous, affable, well-mannered, good mannered, well-behaved, well mannered, educated, learned, highbrow, enlightened, erudite, knowledgeable, intellectual, literate, well-bred, scholarly, lettered, courtly, literary, well read, respectable, seemly, academic, bookish, tasteful, studious, correct, well-read, proper, well educated, brainy … more
  5. Examples:
      6. “What distinguishes a civilized man from a barbarian must be acquired by every individual anew.”
      “And these jokers would have the nerve to say they are more civilized than me.”
      “Walker's script portrays a couple of go-nowhere white trash who struggle desperately to climb out of the muck and back into civilized society.”
civic
  1. Of, relating to, or belonging to a city, a citizen, or citizenship; municipal or civil.
  2. Of or relating to the citizen, or of good citizenship and its rights and duties.
  3. Synonyms:
      4. civil, community, public, local, municipal, city, communal, metropolitan, town, urban, national, borough, oppidan, domestic, social, state, home, internal, societal, popular, district, central, burghal, downtown, governmental, interior, neighbourhood, neighborhood, village, general, collective, group, federal, native, regional, provincial, nonrural, nationalized, civilian, nationalised, democratic, citified, interurban, intraurban, main, megalopolitan, parish, political, state-owned, community-based … more
  4. Examples:
      5. “In 1996, he ran as a candidate in Western Canadian provincial and civic elections.”
      “This is a film of warm sunshine in which townsfolk and tourists can happily stroll, enjoying quaint civic parades.”
      “The relationship between the provincial academician and his civic community was vital to the success of the format of the academies.”
civil
  1. (not comparable) Having to do with people and government office as opposed to the military or religion.
  2. (comparable) Behaving in a reasonable or polite manner.
  3. Synonyms:
      4. home, domestic, interior, national, civic, internal, local, municipal, state, governmental, political, public, in-company, in-house, federal, native, indigenous, sovereign, social, nationalized, popular, imperial, royal, communal, politic, nationalised, nationwide, inland, countrywide, state-owned, state-run, government civic, regional, intramural, central, locally produced, in-office, homemade, mainland, on-scene, onsite, on-the-spot, not foreign, not international, district, provincial, community, parochial, neighbourhood, town … more
  4. Examples:
      5. “The one certainty is that the 38-year civil conflict is about to enter its bloodiest phase to date.”
      “Nothing could mess up her good mood, and she felt even better because Pam was being civil towards her.”
      “But such civil issues certainly impeded Burnside's prompt attention to military matters, like an East Tennessee offensive.”
civilised
  1. Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa spelling of civilized
civilisational
  1. Alternative spelling of civilizational
  2. Examples:
      3. “The civilisational reach of India's great textile culture cuts through largely undocumented and unmapped pathways of history.”
      “This is all about general civilisational development, which is sometimes even more important than opening the market to products.”
      “Some also believe that somewhere under the Qila are the remains of a legendary city that's a civilisational navel of sorts.”
civilizational
  1. Pertaining to or arising from civilization
  2. Examples:
      3. “In some eyes at least, it amounted to a single civilizational complex or world system.”
      “Here all concerns about aid, suasion, and civilizational prejudices were drowned out by shrieking simulators and thundering tanks.”
      “That crisis of civilizational morale, in turn, helps explain why European man is deliberately forgetting his history.”
civilizable
  1. Capable of, or suitable to be civilized
  2. Examples:
      3. “The Japanese are a civilizable and civilized race, and must be treated as such.”
      “Imperial logic genders and separates subject peoples so that the men are the Other and the women are civilizable.”
civill
  1. Archaic spelling of civil.
  2. Examples:
      3. “The inequallity that now is, has been introduced by the Lawes civill.”
      “During the time of the civill warres, he lived in lundy island.”
      “In addition to reproducing anecdotes and quips from jest books and wit books, he makes particular use of George Whetstone's Heptameron of civill discourses.”
civilish
  1. somewhat civil
civilest
  1. superlative form of civil: most civil
  2. Examples:
      3. “So, they up and axed him, in the civilest way they could, if he'd favor them with a planxty on his pipes.”
civilizing
  1. present participle of civilize
  2. Synonyms:
      3. cultivating, improving, sophisticating, refining, enlightening, polishing, acculturating, bettering, socialising, socializing, edifying, humanising, humanizing, taming, educating, developing, elevating, uplifting, fostering, ennobling, enriching, ethicizing, spiritualizing, advancing, promoting, helping forward, instructing, reclaiming, bringing civilization to, bringing culture to, tempering, teaching, assimilating, civilising, training, schooling, tutoring, coaching, informing, guiding, inculcating, indoctrinating, drilling … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “The Renaissance period in Europe marked a significant era of civilizing advancements in literature, music, and visual arts.”
civilising
  1. present participle of civilise
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