DICTOMETER

REFINED

1. Synonyms:
   • Polish
   • Refine
   • Fine-tune
   • Down
   Definitions:
   • improve or perfect by pruning or polishing
   Examples:
   • Refine one's style of writing
   
   
2. Synonyms:
   • Complicate
   • Refine
   • Rarify
   • Elaborate
   Definitions:
   • make more complex, intricate, or richer
   Examples:
   • Refine a design or pattern
   
   
3. Synonyms:
   • Refine
   Definitions:
   • treat or prepare so as to put in a usable condition
   Examples:
   • Refine paper stock
   • Refine pig iron
   • Refine oil
   
   
4. Synonyms:
   • Refine
   • Rectify
   Definitions:
   • reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state
   • separate from extraneous matter or cleanse from impurities
   Examples:
   • Refine sugar
   
   
5. Synonyms:
   • Refine
   Definitions:
   • attenuate or reduce in vigor, strength, or validity by polishing or purifying
   Examples:
   • Many valuable nutrients are refined out of the foods in our modern diet
   
   
6. Synonyms:
   • Refine
   Definitions:
   • make more precise or increase the discriminatory powers of
   Examples:
   • Refine a method of analysis
   • Refine the constant in the equation
   
   

1. Synonyms:
   • Refined
   Definitions:
   • (used of persons and their behavior) cultivated and genteel
   Examples:
   • 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
   
   
   
2. Synonyms:
   • Refined
   • Processed
   Definitions:
   • freed from impurities by processing
   Examples:
   • Refined sugar
   • Refined oil
   • To gild refined gold- Shakespeare
   Antonyms:
   • INED
   
   
   
3. Synonyms:
   • Polished
   • Refined
   • Svelte
   • Urbane
   Definitions:
   • showing a high degree of refinement and the assurance that comes from wide social experience
   Examples:
   • His polished manner
   • Maintained an urbane tone in his letters
   Antonyms:
   • Naive
   • Naif
   
   
   
4. Synonyms:
   • Elegant
   • Graceful
   • Refined
   Definitions:
   • suggesting taste, ease, and wealth
   Antonyms:
   • Ungracious
   
   
   
5. Synonyms:
   • Neat
   • Refined
   • Tasteful
   Definitions:
   • free from what is tawdry or unbecoming
   Examples:
   • A neat style
   • A neat set of rules
   • She hated to have her neat plans upset
   Antonyms:
   • Inelegant