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rɪˈfaɪndre·fined
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
refined
Fine (Latin finis, end) denotes that which has been brought to a full end, finished. From this root-sense many derived meanings branch out, causing words quite remote from each other to be alike synonyms of fine. That which is truly finished, brought to an ideal end, is excellent of its kind, and beautiful, if a thing that admits of beauty; as, a fine house, fine trees, a fine woman, a fine morning; if a thing that admits of the removal of impurities, it is not finished till these are removed, and hence fine signifies clarified, clear, pure, refined; as, fine gold. That which is finished is apt to be polished, smooth to the touch, minutely exact in outline; hence fine comes to be a synonym for all words like dainty, delicate, exquisite; as, fine manners, a fine touch, fine perceptions. As that which is delicate is apt to be small, by an easy extension of meaning fine becomes a synonym for slender, slight, minute, comminuted; as, a fine thread, fine sand; or for filmy, tenuous, thin; as, a fine lace, fine wire; and as a thin edge is keen, sharp, fine becomes also a synonym for these words; as, a fine point, a fine edge. Compare BEAUTIFUL; MINUTE.
Synonyms:
beautiful, clarified, clear, comminuted, dainty, delicate, elegant, excellent, exquisite, fine, gauzy, handsome, keen, minute, nice, polished, pure, sensitive, sharp, slender, slight, small, smooth, splendid, subtile, subtle, tenuous, thinAntonyms:
big, blunt, clumsy, coarse, great, heavy, huge, immense, large, rude, stout, thick
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
refined
Synonyms:
courtly, polished, accomplished, genteel
Princeton's WordNet
refinedadjective
(used of persons and their behavior) cultivated and genteel
"she was delicate and refined and unused to hardship"; "refined people with refined taste"
Synonyms:
graceful, elegant, processed, polished, tasteful, neat, svelte, urbaneAntonyms:
uncultivated, naive, loutish, crude, oafish, robust, neandertal, swinish, ill-bred, naif, unladylike, ungracious, yokelish, agrestic, neanderthal, low, uncultured, unrefined, inelegant, rough-spoken, rough-cut, lowbred, ungentlemanly, underbred, unprocessed, common, artless, ungentlemanlike, crass, bounderish, uncouth, boorish, rude, rough, coarse, vulgarrefined, processedadjective
freed from impurities by processing
"refined sugar"; "refined oil"; "to gild refined gold"- Shakespeare
Synonyms:
graceful, elegant, processed, polished, tasteful, neat, svelte, urbaneAntonyms:
oafish, crude, vulgar, naif, bounderish, coarse, ungentlemanlike, uncouth, loutish, unprocessed, boorish, neandertal, swinish, common, unrefined, rough-spoken, crass, robust, underbred, rude, ill-bred, ungentlemanly, low, neanderthal, uncultivated, unladylike, yokelish, naive, agrestic, uncultured, lowbred, artless, ungracious, rough-cut, rough, inelegantpolished, refined, svelte, urbaneadjective
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"
Synonyms:
urbane, lissome, neat, lithesome, sylphlike, lissom, polished, slender, processed, slight, svelte, tasteful, slim, graceful, elegant, supple, dressed, milled, litheAntonyms:
naive, ungentlemanlike, naif, unprocessed, inelegant, agrestic, oafish, lowbred, vulgar, yokelish, rude, coarse, rough-spoken, underbred, uncouth, low, boorish, common, uncultured, robust, unladylike, crass, rough, uncultivated, ungentlemanly, neanderthal, rough-cut, neandertal, unrefined, ill-bred, swinish, crude, ungracious, bounderish, loutish, artlesselegant, graceful, refinedadjective
suggesting taste, ease, and wealth
Synonyms:
graceful, elegant, processed, polished, tasteful, neat, svelte, urbaneAntonyms:
ungracious, boorish, common, ungentlemanlike, vulgar, low, neanderthal, unrefined, ungentlemanly, crude, agrestic, coarse, crass, inelegant, ill-bred, unladylike, yokelish, rough-cut, neandertal, unprocessed, uncouth, loutish, bounderish, rough, rude, lowbred, naif, underbred, uncultured, naive, rough-spoken, uncultivated, artless, robust, swinish, oafishneat, refined, tastefuladjective
free from what is tawdry or unbecoming
"a neat style"; "a neat set of rules"; "she hated to have her neat plans upset"
Synonyms:
urbane, slap-up, full-strength, straight, cracking, neat, clean, svelte, nifty, swell, graceful, orderly, keen, tasteful, processed, bang-up, smashing, not bad(p), elegant, corking, groovy, polished, great, bully, dandy, peachyAntonyms:
rough-cut, inelegant, oafish, underbred, ungracious, crass, naive, bounderish, yokelish, low, ungentlemanly, artless, ill-bred, swinish, rude, robust, agrestic, rough, lowbred, coarse, neandertal, vulgar, ungentlemanlike, boorish, naif, unrefined, uncultured, unladylike, uncultivated, neanderthal, rough-spoken, common, uncouth, unprocessed, loutish, crude
Editors Contribution
sophisticatedly
1. having or showing much worldly knowledge or cultural refinement: a sophisticated businesswoman who is unlikely to be outmaneuvered; a sophisticated appraisal of the movie.
Submitted by khushboo.gloriya on October 1, 2020
Dictionary of English Synonymes
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
refinedadjective
Synonyms:
exquisite, polished, fine, well-bred, courtly, cultured, purified, sublimated, subtle, subtilized
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "refined":
sophisticated, perfected, fine-tuned, improved, exquisite, redefined, sharpened, refine, polished
Words popularity by usage frequency
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#209 | great | |
#350 | small | |
#907 | clear | |
#1114 | fine | |
#1157 | nice | |
#1353 | excellent | |
#1397 | beautiful | |
#1809 | clean | |
#1981 | minute | |
#2442 | straight | |
#2863 | improved | |
#3091 | sharp | |
#3337 | pure | |
#3826 | sensitive | |
#3880 | smooth | |
#4349 | thin | |
#5016 | processed | |
#5397 | refine | |
#6109 | elegant | |
#6310 | slim | |
#6642 | sophisticated | |
#7350 | accomplished | |
#7516 | slight | |
#8685 | refined | |
#8743 | dressed | |
#9217 | keen | |
#9513 | polished | |
#9840 | subtle | |
#10534 | neat | |
#11658 | delicate | |
#12059 | handsome | |
#13127 | exquisite | |
#15269 | cracking | |
#15458 | splendid | |
#16522 | swell | |
#17616 | nifty | |
#18998 | groovy | |
#19228 | smashing | |
#19839 | clarified | |
#19860 | graceful | |
#19918 | slender | |
#20349 | orderly | |
#20516 | bully | |
#24896 | dandy | |
#27993 | perfected | |
#29634 | supple | |
#30301 | tasteful | |
#30444 | redefined | |
#37009 | milled | |
#42465 | dainty | |
#44590 | sharpened | |
#47843 | tenuous | |
#52162 | peachy | |
#68486 | urbane | |
#73693 | genteel | |
#78368 | courtly | |
#83606 | lithe | |
#96818 | svelte | |
#162538 | gauzy | |
#186190 | comminuted | |
#206784 | subtile | |
#252858 | corking |
How to use refined in a sentence?
The party that tells women to sit down and shut up is not supposed to be the Democratic Party, … I may not be refined, but I’m real. The polished turds that they continue to shove down our throats as politicians are still turds.
We continue to conduct detailed military planning with the Turkish General Staff to address Turkish security concerns along the Turkey-Syria border. Planning to date has been productive and we have an initial concept that will be refined in the coming days. We are also conducting planning with other members of the Coalition who have indicated an intent to support the transition phase of operations into Syria.
It’s stripped of a lot of its nutrients and it’s refined.
A rational, refined, streamlined environmental process is actually a huge step further and benefits the environment.
Intact whole grains that still have the outer layer [the bran], such as farro, freekeh, sorghum, and wheat berries, should be soaked in water overnight to help release the phytates, but this doesn't apply to semi-refined or unhulled types like pearled barley or instant oats.
Translations for refined
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- refinatCatalan, Valencian
- raffiniertGerman
- refinadoSpanish
- تصفیه شدهPersian
- hienostunutFinnish
- châtié, affinéFrench
- aaheelitManx
- finomított, finom, rafinált, kifinomultHungarian
- raffinatoItalian
- 洗練されたJapanese
- verfijndDutch
- raffinertNorwegian
- refinadoPortuguese
- рафинированный, очищенный, утончённый, изысканный, благородныйRussian
- சுத்திகரிக்கப்பட்டTamil
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