cultural

[kuhl-cher-uhl] / ˈkʌl tʃər əl /

ADJECTIVE

educational, enlightening

Synonyms

STRONGEST

artistic developmental

WEAK

adorning advancing beautifying beneficial broadening civilizing constructive corrective dignifying disciplining edifying educative elevating ennobling enriching expanding glorifying helpful humane humanizing influential inspirational instructive learned liberal liberalizing nurturing ornamenting polishing promoting raising refined refining regenerative socializing stimulating uplifting widening

Example Sentences

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Victoria’s Secret, Einhorn says, has been beaten up among a “woke” cultural backlash, botched acquisition, and tariffs.

From Barron's • May 13, 2026

"France is looking to leverage already recognisable commercial brands, cultural presence and its weight in the European Union to mobilise economic initiatives," she explained.

From BBC • May 12, 2026

The company will further press its one-platform-fits-all strategy with a new AI tool that it says will custom-build ad inventory based around cultural events that interest advertisers but aren’t on YouTube’s calendar.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 12, 2026

I did indeed grow up to be a gay man and a critic, but I never came close to achieving Reed’s cultural prominence.

From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2026

New plants and animals, whether in the New World or the Old, had no such chain of associations, no penumbra of cultural meanings.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

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