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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (5)

1. (used of persons and their behavior) cultivated and genteel;
- Example: "she was delicate and refined and unused to hardship"
- Example: "refined people with refined taste"

2. freed from impurities by processing;
- Example: "refined sugar"
- Example: "refined oil"
- Example: "to gild refined gold"- Shakespeare
[syn: refined, processed]

3. showing a high degree of refinement and the assurance that comes from wide social experience;
- Example: "his polished manner"
- Example: "maintained an urbane tone in his letters"
[syn: polished, refined, svelte, urbane]

4. suggesting taste, ease, and wealth;
[syn: elegant, graceful, refined]

5. free from what is tawdry or unbecoming;
- Example: "a neat style"
- Example: "a neat set of rules"
- Example: "she hated to have her neat plans upset"
[syn: neat, refined, tasteful]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Refine \Re*fine"\ (r?*f?n"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Refined
   (-find"); p. pr. & vb. n. Refining.] [Pref. re- + fine to
   make fine: cf. F. raffiner.]
   1. To reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; to free from
      impurities; to free from dross or alloy; to separate from
      extraneous matter; to purify; to defecate; as, to refine
      gold or silver; to refine iron; to refine wine or sugar.
      [1913 Webster]

            I will bring the third part through the fire, and
            will refine them as silver is refined. --Zech. xiii.
                                                  9.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. To purify from what is gross, coarse, vulgar, inelegant,
      low, and the like; to make elegant or exellent; to polish;
      as, to refine the manners, the language, the style, the
      taste, the intellect, or the moral feelings.
      [1913 Webster]

            Love refines
            The thoughts, and heart enlarges.     --Milton.
      [1913 Webster]

   Syn: To purify; clarify; polish; ennoble.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Refined \Re*fined"\ (-f?nd"), a.
   Freed from impurities or alloy; purifed; polished; cultured;
   delicate; as; refined gold; refined language; refined
   sentiments.
   [1913 Webster]

         Refined wits who honored poesy with their pens.
                                                  --Peacham.
   [1913 Webster] -- Re*fin"ed*ly (r?*f?n"?d*l?), adv. --
   Re*fin"ed*ness, n.
   [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

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:
       refined, processed] [ant: crude, unprocessed,
       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,
       refined, svelte, urbane]
    4: suggesting taste, ease, and wealth [syn: elegant,
       graceful, refined]
    5: 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, refined, tasteful]