refined

Plural: refineds

Verb

• improve or perfect by pruning or polishing
• make more complex, intricate, or richer
• treat or prepare so as to put in a usable condition
• reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; separate from extraneous matter or cleanse from impurities
• attenuate or reduce in vigor, strength, or validity by polishing or purifying
  • "many valuable nutrients are refined out of the foods in our modern diet"
• make more precise or increase the discriminatory powers of
• simple past and past participle of refine

Adjective

• (used of persons and their behavior) cultivated and genteel
  • "she was delicate and refined and unused to hardship"
  • "refined people with refined taste"
• freed from impurities by processing; ; ; - Shakespeare
  • "refined sugar"
  • "refined oil"
  • "to gild refined gold"

Adjective Satellite

• showing a high degree of refinement and the assurance that comes from wide social experience
• suggesting taste, ease, and wealth
• free from what is tawdry or unbecoming

Adj

• Precise, freed from imprecision
• Sagacious, sometimes (derogatory) oversubtle or feigning sagacity.
• Precise, freed from imprecision
• Subtle, scrupulous, carefully thought out.
• Precise, freed from imprecision
• Developed, improved.
• Cultured, freed from vulgarity
• Elevated and polished.
• Cultured, freed from vulgarity
• Elegant, sometimes (derogatory) affected, prissy, or bloodless.
• Purified, reduced in or freed from impurities
• Highly-processed and pure.
• Purified, reduced in or freed from impurities
• Free of dross or alloy.
• Purified, reduced in or freed from impurities
• Morally pure.
• Dealing in a refined product such as sugar or petroleum.

Noun

• The refined form of a commodity, as opposed to its raw or generic form.

Examples

• Don Draper was a man of refined tastes.
• In the British Isles, Oxbridge is considered refined; Geordie somewhat less so.
• The argument, while not persuasive, is quite refined.
• The curriculum has been carefully refined to meet the needs of foreign students.
• The raw petroleum was refined into kerosene.
• The Temple at Jerusalem preferred Tyrian shekels, since even with Ba'al's portrait they bore highly refined silver.
• Under current guidelines, refined sugar must be at least five times purer than its raw counterpart.
• We're still purchasing copper ore, but the market for refined is weaker.

Synonyms

complicate, down, elaborate, elegant, fine-tune, graceful, neat, polish, polished, processed, rarify, rectify, refine, svelte, tasteful, urbane, dainty

Antonyms

unrefined

Anagrams of refined