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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
overrefined
adjective: excessively delicate or refined [syn: {superfine}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
93 Moby Thesaurus words for "overrefined": Gongoresque, Gongoristic, Marinistic, affected, allergic, anaphylactic, apparently sound, artificial, casuistic, chichi, colorable, deceptive, delicate, disingenuous, elaborate, elaborated, elegant, empathetic, empathic, empty, euphemistic, euphuistic, exquisite, fallacious, formalistic, goody good-good, goody-goody, goosy, hairsplitting, hollow, hypercritical, hyperelegant, hyperesthetic, hyperpathic, hypersensitive, illusive, insincere, irritable, itchy, jesuitic, la-di-da, mannered, mincing, morbidly sensitive, namby-pamby, nervous, overconscientious, overcritical, overelaborate, overelegant, overfastidious, overmeticulous, overnice, overparticular, overprecise, overscrupulous, oversensible, oversensitive, oversqueamish, oversubtle, overtender, passible, pedantic, philosophistic, plausible, precieuse, precieux, precious, precisian, precisianistic, precisionistic, pretentious, prickly, puristic, refined, responsive, sensitive, simpering, skittish, sophistic, sophistical, specious, studied, supersensitive, sympathetic, tactful, tender, tetchy, thin-skinned, ticklish, touchy, ultracritical, unnatural
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