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hypercivilized

hypercivilized adjective: very highly civilized.

Adjective

hypercivilized (comparative more hypercivilized, superlative most hypercivilized)

  1. Very highly civilized.
    • A fascination with the natural world — which seems at once fragile and enduring, forbiddingly strange and intimately known — is an obvious response to, and escape from, our hypercivilized, technology-saturated, globalized habitations.2009 March 27, A. O. Scott, “Film Festival: The City as Bane, Nature as Balm”, in New York Times

Forms of hypercivilized

comparativemore hypercivilized
superlativemost hypercivilized

Origin of hypercivilized

From hyper- + civilized.

Questions about hypercivilized

What does hypercivilized mean?
Hypercivilized means very highly civilized.
What part of speech is hypercivilized?
Hypercivilized is an adjective.

Words near hypercivilized in the dictionary

  1. hypercitrullinated
  2. hypercitrullination
  3. hypercitrullinemia
  4. hypercivilised
  5. hypercivilization
  6. hypercivilized
  7. hyperclarity
  8. hyperclass
  9. hyperclasses
  10. hyperclassical
  11. hyperclean

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