refined
/ri'faind/
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Definition
- Adjective:
- Free from impurities; processed to remove unwanted elements: Describes a substance that has been purified or processed to achieve a higher quality or purity.
- Cultivated and elegant in manner, taste, or appearance: Describes a person, their behavior, or style that shows good taste, education, and sophistication.
- Precise, subtle, or highly developed: Describes an idea, method, or skill that is improved to a very precise or effective state.
Examples of Usage
- Describing a processed substance:
- The recipe calls for refined sugar, not the raw cane variety.
- We use only refined olive oil for this dressing.
- Describing a person or manner:
- Her refined manners impressed everyone at the formal dinner.
- He has a refined taste in art and literature.
- Describing a developed skill or idea:
- After years of practice, her technique became incredibly refined.
- The software engineer presented a refined algorithm that was much more efficient.
Advanced Usage
- "Refined to perfection": Improved or developed until it is as good as it can possibly be.
- The chef's signature dish has been refined to perfection over two decades.
- "Refined sensibility": A highly developed or delicate sensitivity, especially in matters of art or ethics.
- The poet's work appeals to those with a refined sensibility.
Variants and Related Words
- Refine (verb): To make something more pure, polished, or effective.
- They continue to refine the design of the car.
- Refinement (noun): The process or result of refining; an improvement or elegant feature.
- The latest model includes several refinements for user comfort.
- Refinery (noun): A factory where a raw material is refined.
- The oil refinery is located outside the city.
Synonyms
- Purified: Made pure by removing contaminants.
- Cultivated: Characterized by refined taste and manners.
- Polished: Elegant and sophisticated in manner or style.
- Sophisticated: Having a great deal of worldly experience and knowledge of fashion and culture.
Antonyms
- Crude: In a natural or raw state; not processed or refined. Also, lacking grace or tact.
- Unrefined: Not processed to remove impurities; also, lacking cultural or social polish.
- Coarse: Rough in texture or manner; lacking refinement.
Related Phrases
- Refined palate: The ability to taste and appreciate subtle differences in food and drink.
- As a sommelier, she has a highly refined palate.
- Refined gold: A classic literary phrase (as used by Shakespeare) meaning gold that has been purified, often used metaphorically to describe something already perfect that cannot be improved.
- Adding more decoration to that beautiful sculpture is like trying to gild refined gold.
Adjective
- free from what is tawdry or unbecoming
- a neat style
- a neat set of rules
- she hated to have her neat plans upset
- suggesting taste, ease, and wealth
- 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
- freed from impurities by processing
- refined sugar
- refined oil
- to gild refined gold- Shakespeare
- (used of persons and their behavior) cultivated and genteel
- she was delicate and refined and unused to hardship
- refined people with refined taste