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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Klein, a three-time finalist for the National Book Critics Circle’s Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing, is a cultural reporter and critic in Philadelphia.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2026

He forced a cultural rewrite that Microsoft veterans still talk about.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 22, 2026

In recognition of the region's cultural heritage and conservation mission, the team named the species Trimeresurus lii -- the Huaxi Green Pitviper.

From Science Daily • Apr. 22, 2026

Ternus is already a keeper of the company’s cultural flame.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 21, 2026

Second, a long cultural revolution had to take place, in which book learning came to seem of lesser importance than direct experience.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

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