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REFINED
elegant, graceful, refined
(adjective) suggesting taste, ease, and wealth
refined
(adjective) precise to a fine degree; “due to the limitations of the available tools, a more refined analysis of the data may be necessary”
refined
(adjective) (used of persons and their behavior) cultivated and genteel; “she was delicate and refined and unused to hardship”; “refined people with refined taste”
refined, processed
(adjective) freed from impurities by processing; “refined sugar”; “refined oil”; “to gild refined gold”- Shakespeare
polished, refined, urbane
(adjective) 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”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Verb
refined
simple past tense and past participle of refine
Adjective
refined (comparative more refined, superlative most refined)
Precise, freed from imprecision, particularly:
(of people, obsolete) Sagacious, sometimes (pejorative) oversubtle or feigning sagacity.
(of thought) Subtle, scrupulous, carefully thought out.
(of processes) Developed, improved.
Cultured, freed from vulgarity, particularly:
(of language) Elevated and polished.
(of people) Elegant, sometimes (pejorative) affected, prissy, or bloodless.
Purified, reduced in or freed from impurities, particularly:
(of products) Highly-processed and pure.
(of metal) Free of dross or alloy.
(of people, obsolete) Morally pure.
(of a market) Dealing in a refined product such as sugar or petroleum.
Noun
refined (plural refineds)
(finance) The refined form of a commodity, as opposed to its raw or generic form.
Anagrams
• definer, e-friend, enfired, fendier
Source: Wiktionary
Re*fined" (-fnd"), a.
Definition: 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, adv.
– Re*fin"ed*ness, n.
REFINE
Re*fine" (r*fn"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Refined (-find"); p. pr. & vb. n. Refining.] Etym: [Pref. re- + fine to make fine: cf. F. raffiner.]
1. To reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; to free from impurities; to free from dross or alloy; to separate from extraneous matter; to purify; to defecate; as, to refine gold or silver; to refine iron; to refine wine or sugar. I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined. Zech. xiii. 9.
2. To purify from what is gross, coarse, vulgar, inelegant, low, and the like; to make elegant or exellent; to polish; as, to refine the manners, the language, the style, the taste, the intellect, or the moral feelings. Love refines The thoughts, and heart enlarges. Milton.
Syn.
– To purify; clarify; polish; ennoble.
Re*fine", v. i.
1. To become pure; to be cleared of feculent matter. So the pure, limpid stream, when foul with stains, Works itself clear, and, as it runs, refines. Addison.
2. To improve in accuracy, delicacy, or excellence. Chaucer refined on Boccace, and mended his stories. Dryden. But let a lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens! How the style refines! Pope.
3. To affect nicety or subtilty in thought or language. "He makes another paragraph about our refining in controversy." Atterbury.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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