Meaning

Extremely cultivated (in various senses)..

Example Sentences

I rather like the semi-wild character of some of the less supercultivated roses; they contribute a large share of the interest which belongs to an artistic garden.

If one follows [William] Blake's mind through the several stages of his poetic development it is impossible to regard him as a naïf, a wild man, a wild pet for the supercultivated.

What is curious is the completeness with which this hyper-imaginative, supercultivated world — which could well account for, say, Shakespeare's "romances," for his sophisticated and profoundly consistent use of the mythologies of the great religions, for his use of emblematic symbolism, both in his dramatic structure and his poetic style, and for his phenomenal abilities as an actively creative visionary—vanished.

Word Forms

• more supercultivated
• most supercultivated

When Should You Use Supercultivated?

Use supercultivated when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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