Dictionary Definition
refined adj
1 used of persons and their behavior; cultivated
and genteel; "she was delicate and refined and unused to hardship";
"refined people with refined taste" [ant: unrefined]
2 freed from impurities by processing; "refined
sugar"; "refined oil"; "to gild refined gold"- Shakespeare [syn:
processed] [ant:
unrefined]
3 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: polished, svelte, urbane]
6 free from what is tawdry or unbecoming; "a neat
style"; "a neat set of rules"; "she hated to have her neat plans
upset" [syn: neat, tasteful]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- rē fīnd'
Adjective
- Showing or having good feelings or good taste.
- Ozzie and Harriet are refined people.
- An absence of coarseness.
- Not vulgar.
- Without impurities.
- The sugar was refined, not gritty.
Translations
absence of coarseness
without impurities
Verb
refined- past of refine
- The raw petroleum was refined into kerosene.''
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Attic,
Ciceronian, accurate, advanced, allergic, ameliorated, anaphylactic, appreciative, archetypical, aristocratic, assembled, attentive, attenuate, attenuated, beautified, bettered, bowdlerized, built, cast, chaste, civilized, clarified, classic, clean, cleaned, cleaned up, cleansed, clear, close, conscientious, constant, constructed, consummate, converted, correct, courteous, courtly, crafted, created, critical, cultivated, cultured, custom, custom-built,
custom-made, dainty,
delicat, delicate, demanding, detailed, developed, differential, dignified, direct, discerning, discriminate, discriminating, discriminative, distilled, distinctive, distingue, distinguishing, downy, easy, educated, elegant, elevated, embellished, empathetic, empathic, enhanced, enriched, even, exact, exacting, exemplary, exigent, expert, express, expurgated, exquisite, extracted, fabricated, faithful, fashioned, fastidious, filmy, fine, fine-drawn, fine-grained,
finespun, finical, finicking, finicky, finished, fluffy, forged, formed, fully developed, fussy, fuzzy, gathered, gauzy, genteel, gentle, gentlemanlike, gentlemanly, goosy, gossamer, gossamery, graceful, gracile, gracious, grown, hairline, hairsplitting, handcrafted, handmade, harvested, highbred, homemade, homespun, hyperesthetic, hyperpathic, hypersensitive, improved, inerrable, inerrant, infallible, irritable, itchy, knowledgeable, ladylike, limpid, lucid, machine-made, machined, made, made to order, man-made,
mannerly, manufactured, masterful, masterly, mathematical, mature, matured, meticulous, micrometrically
precise, microscopic, milled, mined, minute, model, molded, narrow, natural, neat, nervous, nice, noble, overrefined, oversensible, oversensitive, overtender, particular, passible, pellucid, perfected, perspicuous, pinpoint, plain, polished, polite, posh, precise, precisianistic, precisionistic, prefab, prefabricated, prickly, processed, proficient, pubescent, punctilious, punctual, pure, purged, purified, put together,
quintessential,
raised, ready-for-wear,
ready-formed, ready-made, ready-prepared, ready-to-wear, reformed, religious, religiously exact,
responsive, restrained, rigid, rigorous, ripe, ripened, round, satin, satiny, scientific, scientifically
exact, scrupulous,
scrutinizing,
selective, sensitive, severe, shaped, silky, simple, skittish, smelted, smooth, sophisticated, spruce, square, straightforward,
strict, subtle, supersensitive, sympathetic, tactful, tasteful, tender, terse, tetchy, thin-skinned, thin-spun,
ticklish, tidy, touchy, transfigured, transformed, trim, unaffected, undeviating, unerring, unlabored, urbane, velutinous, velvety, well-bred,
well-brought-up, well-built, well-constructed, well-made,
well-mannered, wiredrawn