Word Meanings - CULTIVATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

cultivare to cultivate, fr. cultivus cultivated, fr. L. cultus, p.p. 1. To bestow attention, care, and labor upon, with a view to valuable returns; to till; to fertilize; as, to cultivate soil. 2. To direct special attention to; to devote time

Additional info about word: CULTIVATE

cultivare to cultivate, fr. cultivus cultivated, fr. L. cultus, p.p. 1. To bestow attention, care, and labor upon, with a view to valuable returns; to till; to fertilize; as, to cultivate soil. 2. To direct special attention to; to devote time and thought to; to foster; to cherish. Leisure . . . to cultivate general literature. Wordsworth. 3. To seek the society of; to court intimacy with. I ever looked on Lord Keppel as one of the greatest and best men of his age; and I loved and cultivated him accordingly. Burke. 4. To improve by labor, care, or study; to impart culture to; to civilize; to refine. To cultivate the wild, licentious savage. Addison. The mind of man hath need to be prepared for piety and virtue; it must be cultivated to the end. Tillotson. 5. To raise or produce by tillage; to care for while growing; as, to cultivate corn or grass.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CULTIVATE)

• Exercise Practise
• train
• cultivate
• develop
• Raise
• Lift
• heave
• elevate
• exalt
• advance
• promote
• heighten
• enhance
• awaken
• rouse
• excite
• call forth
• rear
• produce
• collect
• summon
• erect
• originate
• propagate
• Till
• Plow
• prepare
• dress
• tend

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of CULTIVATE)

• Retard
• hinder
• withhold
• withdraw
• recall
• depress
• degrade
• suppress
• oppose
• retreat
• decrease

Related words: (words related to CULTIVATE)

• FORTHPUTING
  Bold; forward; aggressive.
• COLLECTIVENESS
  A state of union; mass.
• COLLECTEDLY
  Composedly; coolly.
• ROUSE
  To pull or haul strongly and all together, as upon a rope, without the assistance of mechanical appliances.
• SUPPRESSOR
  One who suppresses.
• COLLECTIBLE
  Capable of being collected.
• RAISE
  To create or constitute; as, to raise a use that is, to create it. Burrill. To raise a blockade , to remove or break up a blockade, either by withdrawing the ships or forces employed in enforcing it, or by driving them away or dispersing them.
• RETREATFUL
  Furnishing or serving as a retreat. "Our retreatful flood." Chapman.
• COLLECTIVISM
  The doctrine that land and capital should be owned by society collectively or as a whole; communism. W. G. Summer.
• RAISED
  1. Lifted up; showing above the surroundings; as, raised or embossed metal work. 2. Leavened; made with leaven, or yeast; -- used of bread, cake, etc., as distinguished from that made with cream of tartar, soda, etc. See Raise, v. t., 4. Raised
• PRODUCEMENT
  Production.
• DRESSINESS
  The state of being dressy.
• DEVELOPMENT
  The series of changes which animal and vegetable organisms undergo in their passage from the embryonic state to maturity, from a lower to a higher state of organization. The act or process of changing or expanding an expression into another
• FORTHCOMING
  Ready or about to appear; making appearance.
• FORTHY
  Therefore. Spenser.
• EXERCISE
  exercitum, to drive on, keep, busy, prob. orig., to thrust or drive 1. The act of exercising; a setting in action or practicing; employment in the proper mode of activity; exertion; application; use; habitual activity; occupation, in
• EXALTMENT
  Exaltation. Barrow.
• COLLECTIVELY
  In a mass, or body; in a collected state; in the aggregate; unitedly.
• ENHANCEMENT
  The act of increasing, or state of being increased; augmentation; aggravation; as, the enhancement of value, price, enjoyments, crime.
• RETREATMENT
  The act of retreating; specifically, the Hegira. D'Urfey.
• UNDRESS
  To take the dressing, or covering, from; as, to undress a wound. (more info) 1. To divest of clothes; to strip. 2. To divest of ornaments to disrobe.
• APPRAISER
  One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates.
• DEMANDRESS
  A woman who demands.
• STRAINABLE
  1. Capable of being strained. 2. Violent in action. Holinshed.
• MISRAISE
  To raise or exite unreasonable. "Misraised fury." Bp. Hall.
• RESTRAINABLE
  Capable of being restrained; controllable. Sir T. Browne.
• OFFENDRESS
  A woman who offends. Shak.
• PRAISEWORTHINESS
  The quality or state of being praiseworthy.
• TROUSERING
  Cloth or material for making trousers.
• WHENCEFORTH
  From, or forth from, what or which place; whence. Spenser.
• TROUSE
  Trousers. Spenser.
• DISTRAINER
  See DISTRAINOR
• HALF-STRAINED
  Half-bred; imperfect. "A half-strained villain." Dryden.