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1. Marked by refinement in taste and manners
   "civilised speech";
   - civilized, cultivated, cultured, genteel, polite
    
2. Having a high state of culture and development both social and technological
   "terrorist acts that shocked the civilised world";
   - civilized

1. Teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment
   "She is well civilised in poetry";
   - educate, school, train, cultivate, civilize
    
2. Raise from a barbaric to a civilized state
   "The wild child found wandering in the forest was gradually civilised";
   - civilize

See also: advanced, civil, educated, humane, refined

Type of: alter, change, down [informal], fine-tune, modify, polish, refine

Antonym: noncivilized

Encyclopedia: Civilised