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supercivilized

supercivilized adjective: highly civilized.

Adjective

supercivilized (comparative more supercivilized, superlative most supercivilized)

  1. Highly civilized.
    • There was no peace for him between the two currents that flowed in his nature, the blood of his passionate, plebeian mother and that of his long-descended, supercivilised sire. They continued to toss him from one side to the other; they arrayed him in intolerable defiances and revenges against...1886, Henry James, The Princess Casamassima, London: Macmillan and Co.

Forms of supercivilized

comparativemore supercivilized
superlativemost supercivilized
alternative formsupercivilised

Origin of supercivilized

From super- + civilized.

Questions about supercivilized

What does supercivilized mean?
Supercivilized means highly civilized.
What part of speech is supercivilized?
Supercivilized is an adjective.

Words near supercivilized in the dictionary

  1. supercivilisation
  2. supercivilisations
  3. supercivilised
  4. supercivilization
  5. supercivilizations
  6. supercivilized
  7. superclade
  8. superclades
  9. superclass
  10. superclassed
  11. superclasses

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