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cultivation - 20 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | cultivation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | development of land for growing |
| Synonyms: | farming, gardening, horticulture, working, agrology, agronomics, agronomy, planting, plowing, tillage, tilling |
| Notes: | culture is acquired by study and application; cultivation is developed by training and exposure |
| Main Entry: | cultivation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | culture, sophistication, education |
| Synonyms: | advancement, breeding, civility, civilization, delicacy, discernment, discrimination, enlightenment, gentility, improvement, learning, manners, polish, progress, refinement, taste, aestheticism, good taste, grounding, letters, refined taste, schooling |
| Antonyms: | ignorance, unsophistication |
| Main Entry: | cultivation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nurture, help |
| Synonyms: | advancement, advocacy, development, encouragement, enhancement, furtherance, patronage, promotion, support, fostering |
| Antonyms: | destruction, harm, hurt, neglect |
| Main Entry: | agriculture |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | farming, crop production |
| Synonyms: | cultivation, culture, horticulture, husbandry, agronomics, agronomy, tillage |
| Main Entry: | background |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | experience or circumstances |
| Synonyms: | actions, atmosphere, attainment, aura, backdrop, breeding, capacity, credentials, cultivation, culture, education, environment, framework, history, practice, preparation, qualification, seasoning, tradition, training, upbringing, accomplishments, acquirement, deeds, grounding, rearing |
| Antonyms: | foreground |
| Main Entry: | education |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | instruction, development of knowledge |
| Synonyms: | background, brainwashing*, breeding, civilization, cultivation, culture, direction, discipline, edification, enlightenment, erudition, finish, guidance, improvement, indoctrination, information, learning, literacy, nurture, preparation, reading, refinement, scholarship, science, study, teaching, training, tuition, tutelage, tutoring, apprenticeship, book learning, catechism, coaching, drilling, inculcation, learnedness, pedagogy, propagandism, proselytism, rearing, schooling |
| Antonyms: | ignorance |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | elegance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cultivated beauty, taste |
| Synonyms: | breeding, charm, class, cultivation, culture, delicacy, dignity, discernment, distinction, felicity, gentility, grace, grandeur, hauteur, luxury, magnificence, nicety, nobility, polish, politeness, propriety, purity, refinement, restraint, rhythm, sophistication, splendor, style, symmetry, courtliness, exquisiteness, good taste, gracefulness, lushness, noblesse, ornateness, poshness, sumptuousness, tastefulness |
| Antonyms: | roughness, ugliness, crudeness, inelegance, poor taste |
| Main Entry: | enlightenment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | awareness, understanding |
| Synonyms: | civilization, comprehension, cultivation, culture, edification, education, information, insight, instruction, knowledge, learning, literacy, refinement, sophistication, teaching, wisdom, bodhi, broad-mindedness, open-mindedness |
| Antonyms: | bewilderment, confusion, ignorance, puzzlement |
| Main Entry: | erudition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | higher education |
| Synonyms: | cultivation, culture, enlightenment, knowledge, learning, literacy, lore, pedantry, refinement, savvy, scholarship, science, bookishness, brains, intellectuality, learnedness, letters, scholarliness, studiousness |
| Antonyms: | ignorance |
| Main Entry: | farming |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | producing crops, raising animals |
| Synonyms: | agriculture, breeding, cultivation, culture, gardening, grazing, growing, harvesting, landscaping, operating, production, threshing, agronomics, agronomy, crop-raising, feeding, fertilizing, geoponics, gleaning, homesteading, hydroponics, ranching, reaping, seeding, share-cropping, soil culture, tillage |
| Main Entry: | horticulture |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | gardening |
| Synonyms: | agriculture, cultivation, farming, arboriculture, floriculture, groundskeeping, viniculture, viticulture |
| Main Entry: | improvement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bettering; something bettered |
| Synonyms: | advance, advancement, amendment, augmentation, betterment, change, civilization, correction, cultivation, development, elevation, enhancement, enrichment, furtherance, gain, growth, increase, progress, progression, promotion, rally, reclamation, recovery, reformation, renovation, revision, rise, upbeat, upgrade, upswing, amelioration, meliorism, preferment, rectification, regeneration |
| Antonyms: | damage, decline, decrease, harm, hurt, injury, diminishing, weakening, worsening |
| Main Entry: | literacy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ability to read |
| Synonyms: | background, cultivation, education, knowledge, learning, proficiency, refinement, scholarship, articulacy, articulateness |
| Antonyms: | ignorance, illiteracy |
| Main Entry: | maturity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | adulthood, full growth |
| Synonyms: | ability, advancement, capability, civilization, completion, cultivation, development, experience, fitness, fullness, majority, manhood, mentality, perfection, prime, readiness, sophistication, wisdom, full bloom, maturation, matureness, maturescence, mellowness, postpubescence, prime of life, ripeness, womanhood |
| Antonyms: | childhood, minority, youth |
| Main Entry: | teaching |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | education |
| Synonyms: | cultivation, culture, discipline, enlightenment, guidance, instruction, learning, reading, training, tutelage, tutoring, apprenticeship, book learning, coaching, drilling, schooling |
| Main Entry: | training |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | preparation |
| Synonyms: | background, basics, buildup, cultivation, discipline, drill, education, exercise, foundation, groundwork, guidance, indoctrination, instruction, practice, seasoning, teaching, tuition, tutelage, upbringing, workout*, chalk talk, coaching, domestication, grounding, preliminaries, principles, readying, schooling, sharpening, tune-up, warm-up* |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | gardening |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | horticulture |
| Synonyms: | cultivation, growing, landscaping, floriculture, groundskeeping, planting, tillage, truck farming |
| Main Entry: | savoir faire |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | tact |
| Synonyms: | cultivation, diplomacy, poise, savoir-faire, savvy, sophistication, suavity, Aukflarung, graciousness, social grace, social know-how, worldliness |
| Main Entry: | civilization |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | culture, sophistication |
| Synonyms: | acculturation, advancement, breeding, civility, cultivation, development, edification, education, elevation, enlightenment, illumination, polish, progress, refinement, social well-being |
| Antonyms: | barbarism, primitiveness |
| Main Entry: | courtesy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | good manners |
| Synonyms: | address, amenities, ceremony, chivalry, civility, complaisance, consideration, cordiality, cultivation, culture, deference, elegance, familiarity, favor, friendliness, gallantry, generosity, geniality, gentleness, indulgence, kindness, polish, politeness, refinement, respect, reverence, solicitude, suavity, sympathy, tact, thoughtfulness, affability, amiability, attentiveness, comity, courteousness, courtliness, gallantness, good behavior, good breeding, graciousness, urbanity |
| Antonyms: | bad manners, discourtesy, rudeness, impoliteness, pompousness, unmannerliness |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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