cultured
pronunciation
How to pronounce cultured in British English:
UK [ˈkʌltʃəd]
How to pronounce cultured in American English:
US [ˈkʌltʃərd]
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- Adjective:
- marked by refinement in taste and manners
Word Origin
- cultured (adj.)
- 1743 in the literal sense of "cultivated," of land, etc., past participle adjective from culture; meaning "developed under controlled natural conditions" is from 1906, originally of pearls. Meaning "improved by exposure to intellectual culture" is from 1777.
Antonym
Example
- 1. It inhibits the growth of cultured human breast cancer cells .
- 2. To do so he treated the cultured cells with drugs .
- 3. It seems the chinese are fast acquiring a cultured palate .
- 4. Back in the lab , they cultured microbes from that mud .
- 5. Crucially , the cultured cells are genetically identical to the diseased ones in the patient .