About The Word Refined
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Refined
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What's The Definition Of Refined?
[adj] free from what is tawdry or unbecoming; "a neat style"; "a neat set of rules"; "she hated to have her neat plans upset"
[adj] suggesting taste, ease, and wealth [adj] made pure [adj] used of persons and their behavior; cultivated and genteel; "she was delicate and refined and unused to hardship"; "refined people with refined taste" [adj] freed from impurities by processing; "refined sugar"; "refined oil"; "to gild refined gold"- Shakespeare [adj] showing a high degree of refinement and the assurance that comes from wide social experience; "his polished manner"; "maintained an urbane tone in his letters" Synonyms | Synonyms for Refined: civilised | civilized | couth | cultivated | cultured | dainty | debonair | debonaire | debonnaire | delicate | elegant | finespun | genteel | gentlemanlike | gentlemanly | graceful | gracious | ladylike | mincing | neat | niminy-piminy | overrefined | polite | prim | processed | pure | purified | sophisticated | suave | sublimate | superfine | svelte | tasteful | twee | urbane | well-bred | well-mannered Related Terms | Find terms related to Refined: See Also | fastidious | polished Refined In Webster's Dictionary \Re*fined"\ (-f?nd"), a.
Freed from impurities or alloy; purifed; polished; cultured;
delicate; as; refined gold; refined language; refined
sentiments.
Refined wits who honored poesy with their pens.
--Peacham.
-- {Re*fin"ed*ly} (r?*f?n"?d*l?), adv. -- {Re*fin"ed*ness},
n.
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