refined

adj 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}]

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