Dictionary Definition
polished adj
1 perfected or made shiny and smooth; "his
polished prose"; "in a freshly ironed dress and polished shoes";
"freshly polished silver" [ant: unpolished]
2 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" [syn: refined, svelte, urbane]
3 (of grains especially rice) having the husk or
outer layers removed; "polished rice" [syn: milled]
4 (of lumber or stone) to trim and smooth [syn:
dressed]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
Translations
made smooth or shiny by polishing
- Finnish: kiillotettu
refined, elegant
- Finnish: hieno, hienostunut
Derived terms
Verb
polished- past of polish
Extensive Definition
Polished is an award winning short film
directed by Ed
Gass-Donnelly, featuring William B.
Davis as a lonely aging businessman who yearns for human
contact from shoeshiner Karyn
Dwyer.
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Attic,
Ciceronian, accomplished, adept, advanced, ameliorated, archetypical, beautified, bettered, buffed, burnished, chaste, civilized, classic, clear, complete, consummate, converted, courtly, cultivated, cultured, dainty, debonair, delicate, developed, direct, discriminating, distingue, easy, educated, elegant, embellished, enhanced, enriched, excellent, exemplary, exhaustive, expert, fastidious, faultless, fine, finished, flawless, fully developed,
fully realized, furbished, genteel, gentle, gentlemanlike, gentlemanly, gifted, glace, glassy, glazed, gleaming, glistening, glossy, graceful, gracile, gracious, highbred, impeccable, improved, lacquered, ladylike, limpid, lucid, lustrous, masterful, masterly, mature, matured, model, natural, neat, nice, outstanding, pellucid, perfect, perfected, perspicuous, plain, polite, proficient, pure, quintessential, refined, reformed, restrained, ripe, ripened, round, rubbed, satiny, sheeny, shellacked, shined, shining, shiny, silken, silky, simple, sleek, slick, smarmy, soignee, sophisticated, straightforward,
subtle, superb, superior, superlative, tasteful, terse, thorough, transfigured, transformed, trim, unaffected, unlabored, urbane, varnished, velvety, virtuoso, well-bred,
well-brought-up, well-mannered