How do you use Civilized in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like civilised or humane, plus the exact meaning.
Civilized meaning
- Having a highly developed society or culture; belonging to civilization.
- Showing evidence of moral and intellectual advancement; humane, reasonable, ethical.
- Marked by refinement in taste and manners.
Synonyms of Civilized
Using Civilized
- The main meaning on this page is: Having a highly developed society or culture; belonging to civilization. | Showing evidence of moral and intellectual advancement; humane, reasonable, ethical. | Marked by refinement in taste and manners.
- Useful related words include: civilised, humane, refined, genteel.
- In the example corpus, civilized often appears in combinations such as: the civilized, in civilized, of civilized.
Context around Civilized
- Average sentence length in these examples: 19.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 6 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Civilized
- In this selection, "civilized" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 19.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, non, truly, educated, world, people and society stand out and add context to how "civilized" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include adapt to civilized behaviour and against the civilized world as. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "civilized" sits close to words such as abel, adjective and arvind, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with civilized
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Pained, you put down your civilized drink. (7 words)
Civilized life is largely life lived with strangers. (8 words)
Those are not legal in other more civilized countries. (9 words)
Israel will meanwhile do the civilized world a favor by breaking the backs of Iran’s Hezb’allah and also Hamas proxies, and it should be encouraged to get the job done for good. (34 words)
It’s comforting to think that the terrorist who murdered seven Jews coming out of a Jerusalem synagogue was striking a blow against “the civilized world,” as President Joe Biden asserted. (31 words)
A sign that Palestinians, removed from the Middle East and allowed to grow and flourish in free societies, can become truly civilized — contributors to society, rather than dangers to it. (30 words)
Example sentences (20)
Some non-civilized people may willingly adapt to civilized behaviour.
Alas, this is starting to look like an exercise in madness at a level of human stupidity seldom witnessed in the history of civilized society.
A sign that Palestinians, removed from the Middle East and allowed to grow and flourish in free societies, can become truly civilized — contributors to society, rather than dangers to it.
Civilized life is largely life lived with strangers.
In the civilized world, solitary confinement is considered a barbaric human rights violation and is only suitable for short term use.
It also makes it feel like a barn in the woods — but a civilized barn.
It’s comforting to think that the terrorist who murdered seven Jews coming out of a Jerusalem synagogue was striking a blow against “the civilized world,” as President Joe Biden asserted.
Most liberal Zionists see themselves closer to “civilized” white Christian Europeans rather than their “primitive” Brown Muslim Arab neighbors.
Pained, you put down your civilized drink.
Seattle is looking to take a small step in rejoining the civilized world by making illegal drugs illegal again.
The hatred, the lies, the brutality, the disgraceful outburst of ancient antisemitism are an embarrassment to all civilized people and nations.
They are just as capable of being educated, civilized, decent, and law-abiding.
This is the antithesis of a civilized and intelligent society.
Those are not legal in other more civilized countries.
To maintain order, liberty and a civilized society, public and private virtue should be encouraged and justice must be administered equally and impartially to all.
But antisemitism here, in L.A.? Surely not — why, antisemitism is uncivilized, and L.A. was a civilized town.
Civilized, democratic and disciplined governments are given no leeway even when operating in the pressure cooker of an existential threat.
However, the Law and its practice have remained one of the foundations of a civilized and progressive society.
Israel will meanwhile do the civilized world a favor by breaking the backs of Iran’s Hezb’allah and also Hamas proxies, and it should be encouraged to get the job done for good.
Netanyahu went out of his way to frame Israel’s plight as civilized people against uncivilized barbarians, which only works if you harbor a supremely racist worldview.
Common combinations with civilized
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the civilized 23×
- in civilized 23×
- of civilized 19×
- civilized society 18×
- civilized world 15×
- five civilized 13×
- civilized tribes 13×
- more civilized 9×
- and civilized 9×
- civilized and 8×