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Cultured vs Sybarite - What's the difference?

cultured | sybarite |

As an adjective cultured

is learned in the ways of civilized society; civilized; refined.

As a verb cultured

is (culture).

As a noun sybarite is

a native or inhabitant of sybaris.

cultured

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Learned in the ways of civilized society; civilized; refined.
  • Artificially developed.
    • cultured voice
    cultured plant

    Synonyms

    * cultivated

    Antonyms

    * uncultured

    Verb

    (head)
  • (culture)

    • sybarite

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person devoted to pleasure and luxury; a voluptuary.
  • * 1969 , Victor Ernest Watts (translator), (author), The (Consolation of Philosophy) , (Penguin Books), book III, chapter iv, page 87:
    • Although the proud lord clothed himself // In purple robes and gem-stones white, // Yet Nero grew to all men’s hate // A wild and cruel sybarite .
  • * 2011 December 16th, William Grimes, “Obituary of Christopher Hitchens” in the New York Times :
    • Thus began a dual career as political agitator and upper-crust sybarite . He arranged a packed schedule of antiwar demonstrations by day and Champagne-flooded parties with Oxford’s elite at night.

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