Civilised is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CIVILISED in dictionary:

VERB (USED WITH OBJECT) [CIV·I·LIZED, CIV·I·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.
VERB:
• CIVILISE, to instruct in refinements, also CIVILIZE
ADJECTIVE:
• having a high state of culture and development both social and technological
• marked by refinement in taste and manners
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to civilize
• same as civilized

Words related to CIVILISED

civilise13 civilises14 civilising16 civilized24

Words that contain CIVILISED

decivilised18 uncivilised17 subcivilised20 overcivilised22 semicivilised21 uncivilisedly22 hypercivilised28 supercivilised22 ultracivilised20 uncivilisedness21

How to use CIVILISED in a sentence

• I see in you a civilised man, who, for some strange reason, wishes to become a savage.
• We are a peace-loving nation, civilised out of the crude lust for conquest founded upon bloodshed.
• The only rest in a really civilised place that they have had after many hundreds of miles of road and forest and trackless thirsty bush.
• George is allowed to have sprung up, but of the civilised, metaphysical, dark-haired races of Egypt, Syria, and Hindostan.
• For certainly it is an unendurable result if the enormous majority of civilised mankind are for ever to be debarred from the highest possible happiness.
• The instincts of sex, for instance, are becoming in all civilised countries more and more the subject of serious thought.
• From all this you would gather that we were as happy as civilised beings could possibly be under the circumstances.
• Established more than a century and a quarter ago, they attained a pitch of musical excellence and importance that attracted the attention of the civilised world.
• But, truth to say, on this July day I reflected but little on the condition of the civilised world.
• But the application of the doctrine to man came as a greater shock to civilised sentiment than would have occurred a century earlier.
• In this kind of moral instruction it seems to be possible to interest all kinds of children, both civilised and barbarous, both ill-bred and well-bred.
• The three stopped, and greeted each other after the manner of civilised people.
• I always like to be strict in the observance of the rules of civilised society.
• Social relations in Russia, as in every civilised state, must rest on the immovable foundations of justice, reason, and conscience.
• But a civilised state will never persuade itself to commit such acts, inhuman though logical.
• The name of Russian subject must be respected within our country, for otherwise the civilised world will not grow accustomed to respect Russia.
• Arrived in London, she expressed herself enraptured at being once more in a civilised country, and restored to the society of human creatures.
• He was older than the oldest of the civilised kingdoms of the earth.
• We can see how useful their production may have been to a social community of insects, on the same principle that the division of labour is useful to civilised man.
• The speech had an odd civilised flavour which contrasted pleasantly with what she had imagined of his mode of life.
• They borrowed from Constantinople, and the City of the Golden Horn has extended its influence in one way and another over all the civilised world.
• This state of things did not exist in an equal degree among any other of the civilised nations of Europe, and even in France it was comparatively recent.
• The Virginia in the looking-glass seemed so very, very civilised.
• A deep silence pervaded the banks of this water never before visited by civilised man.
• Greece was on this ground more civilised than Rome, and Athens more than Sparta.
• A civilised imagination has to understand and to serve the world.
• To-day, when the most civilised nations of the world have devoted all their best energies to competitive slaughter, we may have learnt to view the matter differently.
• But there has been some real advance, in all civilised countries.

Similar words containing CIVILIS without suffix ed

civilise13 civilist13 civiliser14 civilises14 civilists14 civilisers15 civilising16 decivilise16 civilisable18 decivilised18 decivilises17 uncivilised17 civilisation17 decivilising19 subcivilised20 civilisations18 overcivilised22 semicivilised21 uncivilisedly22 civilisational19 hypercivilised28 supercivilised22 ultracivilised20 subcivilisation22 uncivilisedness21

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