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Adjective refined has 6 senses
- refined - used of persons and their behavior; cultivated and genteel; "she was delicate and refined and unused to hardship"; "refined people with refined taste"
Antonyms: unrefined, agrestic, artless, uncultivated, uncultured, boorish, loutish, neanderthal, neandertal, oafish, swinish, coarse, common, rough-cut, uncouth, vulgar, crass, ill-bred, bounderish, lowbred, rude, underbred, yokelish, low, robust, rough, rough-spoken, ungentlemanly, ungentlemanlike, unladylike
- refined, processed - freed from impurities by processing; "refined sugar"; "refined oil"; "to gild refined gold"- Shakespeare
Antonyms: unrefined, unprocessed, crude
- polished, refined, svelte, urbane - 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"
Antonyms: naive, naif (indirect, via sophisticated)
- purified, refined, sublimate - made pure
Antonym: impure (indirect, via pure)
- elegant, graceful, refined - suggesting taste, ease, and wealth
Antonym: ungracious (indirect, via gracious)
- neat, refined, tasteful - free from what is tawdry or unbecoming; "a neat style"; "a neat set of rules"; "she hated to have her neat plans upset"
Antonym: inelegant (indirect, via elegant)
Verb refine has 6 senses
- polish, refine, fine-tune, down - improve or perfect by pruning or polishing; "refine one's style of writing"
--1 is one way to better, improve, amend, ameliorate, meliorate
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- complicate, refine, rarify, elaborate - make more complex, intricate, or richer; "refine a design or pattern"
--2 is one way to change, alter, modify
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- refine - treat or prepare so as to put in a usable condition; "refine paper stock"; "refine pig iron"; "refine oil"
--3 is one way to process, treat
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- refine, rectify - reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; separate from extraneous matter or cleanse from impurities; "refine sugar"
--4 is one way to purify, sublimate, make pure, distill
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- refine - attenuate or reduce in vigor, strength, or validity by polishing or purifying; "many valuable nutrients are refined out of the foods in our modern diet"
--5 is one way to attenuate
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- refine - make more precise or increase the discriminatory powers of; "refine a method of analysis"; "refine the constant in the equation"
--6 is one way to change, alter, modify
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