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单词 overcivilized
释义

overcivilized

adjective

over·​civ·​i·​lized ˌō-vər-ˈsi-və-ˌlīzd How to pronounce overcivilized (audio)
: civilized to an excessive degree
… the idea held in some of the upper classes that America was somehow soft—"overcivilized," as Theodore Roosevelt put it. Evan Thomas
… the social drapery commonly muffling, in an overcivilized age, the sharpness of human contacts. Henry James

Word History

First Known Use

1822, in the meaning defined above

overcivilized

adjective

as in hypercivilized

Synonyms & Similar Words

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  • hypercivilized
  • oversophisticated
  • cosmopolitan
  • civil
  • sophisticated
  • urbane
  • courteous
  • learned
  • polite
  • educated
  • knowledgeable
  • literate
  • mannerly
  • bourgeois
  • highbrowed
  • erudite
  • intellectualistic
  • scholarly
  • middlebrow
  • cerebral
  • well-bred
  • intellectual
  • cultivated
  • highbrow
  • accomplished
  • intellectualist
  • civilized
  • polished
  • cultured
  • well-read
  • couth
  • high-toned
  • genteel
  • refined

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • ungenteel
  • ignorant
  • uncivilized
  • barbarous
  • barbaric
  • unpolished
  • uneducated
  • unrefined
  • uncultured
  • illiterate
  • coarse
  • philistine
  • unintelligent
  • lowbrow
  • provincial
  • unlettered
  • rustic
  • unsophisticated
  • crude
  • backwoods
  • vulgar
  • inelegant
  • polyester
  • boorish
  • clownish
  • uncouth
  • churlish
  • cloddish
  • rustical
  • ill-mannered
  • ill-bred
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