Basic Details
Word: Cultivated
Part of Speech: Verb
Meaning: Prepared land and grew crops on it; also worked over time to build up a skill, a habit or a friendship.
Synonyms: farmed, grew, developed, nurtured
Antonyms: neglected, abandoned
How to Spell Cultivated
Syllables: cul - ti - vat - ed
Tricky part: After cult comes a short i, which many students write as e. The t before ed stays single.
Watch out for: cultevated, cultivatted, cultivaited
Memory tip: Cultivate shares its first four letters, cult, with culture, and agriculture carries the same cult in its middle; all three go back to the Latin for tending the soil. Write cult, then i, then vated.
Usage Examples
Example 1: My uncle cultivated sugarcane on his land near Kolhapur for twenty years.
Example 2: She cultivated the habit of reading the newspaper every morning.
Example 3: The farmers cultivated the terraces on the hillside with care.
Fun Fact
Cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli and kale were all cultivated from one wild cabbage species that grows on European sea cliffs.
Practise the CREST Way
Word Connection
Choose the antonym of the word cultivated as used in the sentence:
Over the years she cultivated a love of reading in her younger brother.
a) nurtured
b) developed
c) fostered
d) neglected
Show answer
d) neglected. To neglect a thing is to give it no care at all, the reverse of what she did.
Word Cookie
Find the extra letter in the word:
cultivatted
a) a
b) v
c) t
d) u
Show answer
c) t. Cultivate ends in a single t before e, so only one t belongs before ed.
Mingle-Mangle
Unjumble the word in the sentence and choose it:
My grandmother daecvlitut a small herb garden on her balcony.
a) captivated
b) cultivated
c) culminated
d) calculated
Show answer
b) cultivated. Cultivated is the only option with a v and no p among its letters.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. A cultivated person is one who is ____.
a) always working outdoors
b) unable to read at all
c) quick to lose temper
d) well educated and refined
Show answer
d) well educated and refined
2. Which of these could a farmer NOT cultivate?
a) granite
b) cotton
c) mustard
d) wheat
Show answer
a) granite
