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4 definitions found
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Refine \Re*fine"\ (r?*f?n"), verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Refined} (-find"); p. pr. & vb. n. {Refining}.] [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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Refined \Re*fined"\ (-f?nd"), adjective 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?), adverb -- {Re*fin"ed*ness}, noun
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
refined
adjective
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}]
4: made pure [syn: {purified}, {sublimate}]
5: suggesting taste, ease, and wealth [syn: {elegant}, {graceful}]
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}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
257 Moby Thesaurus words for "refined": 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
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