Refined

Definitions: Refined

Refined

Adjective

1. Used of persons and their behavior; cultivated and genteel; "she was delicate and refined and unused to hardship"; "refined people with refined taste".

2. Freed from impurities by processing; "refined sugar"; "refined oil"; "to gild refined gold"- Shakespeare.

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".

4. Made pure.

5. Suggesting taste, ease, and wealth.

6. Free from what is tawdry or unbecoming; "a neat style"; "a neat set of rules"; "she hated to have her neat plans upset".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "refined" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Synonyms: Refined

Beauty

Adjective: beautiful, beauteous; handsome; gorgeous; pretty; lovely, graceful, elegant, prepossessing; attractive; (inviting); delicate, dainty, refined; fair, personable, comely, seemly; bonny; good-looking; well-favored, well-made, well-formed, well-proportioned; proper, shapely; symmetrical; (regular); harmonious; (color); sightly.

Courtesy

Adjective: courteous, polite, civil, mannerly, urbane; well-behaved, well-mannered, well-bred, well-brought up; good-mannered, polished, civilized, cultivated; refined; (taste); gentlemanlike; (fashion); gallant; on one's good behavior.

Fashion

Polished, refined, thoroughbred, courtly; distingue; unembarrassed, degage; janty, jaunty; dashing, fast.

Redundancy

Send coals to Newcastle, carry coals to Newcastle, carry owls to Athens; teach one's grandmother to suck eggs; pisces natare docere;kill the slain, " gild refined gold", "gild the lily", butter one's bread on both sides, put butter upon bacon; employ a steam engine to crack a nut; (waste).

Taste

Noun: taste; good taste, refined taste, cultivated taste; delicacy, refinement, fine feeling, gust, gusto, tact, finesse; nicety; (discrimination); gr/to prepon/gr polish, elegance, grace.

Adjective: in good taste, cute, tasteful, tasty; unaffected, pure, chaste, classical, attic; cultivated, refined; dainty; esthetic, aesthetic, artistic; elegant; euphemistic.

Crosswords: Refined

She's so refined. I think I'll kill myself. (Singin' in the Rain; writing credit: Betty Comden; Adolph Green)

She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot. (references; author: Mark Twain)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• The 2000 Import and Export Market for Refined Sugars and Other Products of Refined Beet and Cane in Pakistan (reference)

• The World Market for Soft, Crude, Refined, and Purified Fixed Vegetable Oils: A 2003 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

• The 2000 Import and Export Market for Refined Sugars and Other Products of Refined Beet and Cane in Oceana (reference)

• The 2002 World Forecasts of Soft, Crude, Refined, and Purified Fixed Vegetable Oils Export Supplies (reference)

• The 2003 World Forecasts of Refined Petroleum Products Export Supplies (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Fashion Jewelry to Make Yourself: Imaginative, Refined, Elegant With Instructions (A Schiffer Craft Book) (reference)

• Like Gold Refined (Prairie Legacy, 4) (reference)

• The Ladies' Etiquette Handbook: The Importance of Being Refined in the 1880s (reference)

• The Naturally Sweet Baker : 150 Decadent Desserts Made With Honey, Maple Syrup, and Other Delicious Alternatives to Refined Sugar (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Rules And Regulations Of The Refined Sugar Association (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Music

• Highly Refined Pirates (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Geneticist Anson E. Thompson holds a vial of lesquerella oil processed and refined at the National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research in Peoria, Illinois. P.Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Jack Dykinga..

Front (east) portico. Photograph by Jack E. Boucher, November 1959. (Reproduction Number: HABS, VT, 14-WOOD,1-4) Job Lyman, a young lawyer from Northampton, Massachusetts, finished this house in the village of Woodstock in 1810. He and his bride, Mary Hall, lived in it for many years while Job practiced law in town. The finely carved Neoclassical detailing on the entrance porch suggests Lyman's refined taste and the prosperity of Woodstock at the time of construction. Decorated with fluted Ionic columns and scrolled ornament, the porch also features steps made of granite from a nearby quarry.Credit: Library of Congress.

Quaker State Refining Company, Oil City, Pennsylvania. It's highly skilled work, seeing to it that the oil refined for our military machines is of the highest quality. This worker is inspecting the solution tower for denaphthizing bright stock.Credit: Library of Congress.

Quaker State Refining Company, Oil City, Pennsylvania. It's highly skilled work, seeing to it that the oil refined for our military machines is of the highest quality. This worker is inspecting the solution tower for denaphthizing bright stock.Credit: Library of Congress.

Ensenada, Puerto Rico. Bagging refined sugar at the South Puerto Rico Sugar Company.Credit: Library of Congress.

Putting identification card of Danube Mine on car of ore which has been partially refined at the concentration plant near Bovey, Minnesota.Credit: Library of Congress.

J.H. La Pearl's combination of sure hits moral, refined, and up to date.Credit: Library of Congress.

Hurly-Burly Extravaganza and Refined Vaudeville.Credit: Library of Congress.

Oliver Scott's Refined Negro Minstrels a happy lot of funny coons in myriad acts entrancing, new jokes and gags by black buffoons, the best of songs and dancing.Credit: Library of Congress.

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She will grow just refined enough to be uncomfortable with those among whom birth and circumstances have placed her home.

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Health

Surgical techniques are also being refined by the neurosurgical research community. (references)

Before long, anesthesia-both general and regional-was refined and applied during surgery. (references)

Both children and adults eat too many refined and processed foods in which the natural fiber is removed. (references)

Business

Sophisticated design with refined styling was the key to success for enterprises like Domus, Habitat, Bluebird, Wohnen 2000, Ikea, Wohn-Papst or Esprit. (references)

European Community biotechnology legislation has been in place since the early 1990s. The original regulatory framework has been further extended and refined. (references)

The Waste Avoidance and Waste Management Act has been refined in the interest of promoting environmentally compatible closed substance cycle and waste management. (references)

Economic History

Democratic Republic of Congo

Products--Consumer goods (food, textiles), refined petroleum products. (references)

Libya

Trade: Exports (2000 est.)--$13.9 billion: crude oil, refined petroleum products. (references)

Russia

Perm's top exports are refined oil and petrochemical products, fertilizers and metals. (references)

Political Economy

EGYPT

It is developing an export capacity for substantial reserves of natural gas, to be in place by 2005. It imports machinery, refined oil products, and food products. (references)

Trade

Philippines

Executive Order No. 314, effective November 8, 2000, mandated a three-month suspension of a three percent import tariff on crude oil and most refined petroleum products. (references)

Oman

Examples include currency, seeds, fertilizers, live plants, agricultural implements and insecticides, books, refined petroleum products, and basic food commodities such as rice and meat. (references)

Travel

Yemen

Yemenis have been engaging in commerce for millennia and have refined the art of negotiation. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "refined": be refined ♦ become refined ♦ in refined manner ♦ refined C ♦ refined cast iron ♦ refined Fortran ♦ refined petroleum ♦ refined product ♦ refined sugar ♦ refined tall oil. Additional references.

Ending with "refined": ultra-refined.

Containing "refined": solvent-refined-coal.

Afrikaan

teer (dainty, delicate, fine), delikaat (dainty, delicate, fine). (various references)

Albanian

luksoz (baronial, de luxe, exclusive, fancy, lavish, luxurious, palatial, plushy, rank, recherche, rich, Swan, swanky, swell), i zgjedhur (choosy, chosen, elect, elected, elective, picked, recherche, selected), i rafinuar (dainty, fastidious, formal, polished), i pastër (absolute, chaste, childlike, clean, clean-handed, cleanly, clear, dapper, fair, innocent, neat, net, new, orderly, potty-trained, pure, simon-pure, snug, spotless, sterling, tidy, trig, unadulterated, unblended, unimpeachable, unwritten, virgin, virginal, well groomed, white), i përmirësuar (improved, recovered, reformed), i lëmuar (ganoid, glace, glib, highbred, nice, polished, polite, sleek, sleeken, sleeky, slick, smooth, smooth-faced, soft, unruffled, waxy, well mannered), fin (delicate, nice). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مكرر (iterative, purified, reduplicate, reiterated, repeated), ‏مهذب (civil, civilized, corrected, courteous, cultivated, cultured, discipliner, educated, educator, fair-spoken, gentleman, mannerly, polished, polite, preceptor, purified, rectified, respectable, teacher, urbane, well bred, well mannered), ‏مصفى (clarified, cleared, filtered, purified), ‏مصقول (brushed up, buffed, burnished, cultivated, furbished, glazed, glossed, lustered, polished, scoured, smooth, smoothed, suave), ‏مثقف (cultivated, cultured, educated, educative, enlightened, informative, instructive, intellectual, learned, literate, polished, scholar), ‏مشذب (polished), ‏نقي (fresh, lucid, neat, perspicuous, pure, spruce, sweet), ‏لبق (adroit, clever, diplomatic, skilful, skillful, smart, suave, tactful, urbane), ‏رقيق (aerial, affectionate, airy, angelic, bland, bleeding heart, dainty, delicate, feminine, filmy, fine, flimsy, fluffy, fragile, frothy, gauzy, gentle, gingerly, gossamery, gracious, hearty, kind hearted, kindly, lovely, mellow, mincing, nice, orchidaceous, pastel, photogenic, piano, quiet, romance, sharp, sloppy, smooth, soft-hearted, suave, subtle, sugary, superfine, tender, tenuous, thin, thinning, tilery, trick, warm, watery). (various references)

Bulgarian 

рафиниран, фин (dainty, delicate, distinguished, exquisite, fine, nice, recherche, sheer), точен (accurate, careful, correct, exact, express, faithful, just, literal, minute, narrow, near, perfect, pinpoint, precise, precision, proper, punctual, right, rigorous, scientific, sensitive, straight, strict, true, unerring, veracious, well-directed), пречистен (sublime), прецизен (accurate, businesslike, curious, exact, pinpoint, precision, sensitive, smart), префинен (fastidious, precious), изтънчен (cool, dainty, delicate, discriminating, fastidious, fine, polished, polite, subtle, urbane), изискан (accomplished, classic, discerning, distinguished, elegant, exact, exquisite, gracious, neat, nice, polished, polite, precise, recherche, tasteful, urbane, well-rounded). (various references)

Chinese 

精製 , 精 (energy, excellent, perfect, proficient, very), 斌 (ornamental, slanting), 提炼 (refine, refinement), 文雅 (elegant), 彬 (ornamental), 嫻 (elegant). (various references)

Czech

rafinovaný (astute, crafty, cunning, sneaky, sophisticated, subtle, wily), vzdìlaný (cultivated, cultured, donnish, educated, well educated), vybraný (choice, dainty, delicate, elegant, exquisite, grand, parliamentary, select, selected, sophisticated), uhlazený (courtly, genteel, graceful, mannerly, polite, sleek, slick, urbane), strojený (affected, labored, laboured, mannered, meretricious, minikin, phoney, phony, spurious, studied, stuffy). (various references)

Danish

lutret (plain, plained, seed-free), blankt (bright, plain, plained, seed-free, ungalvanized). (various references)

Dutch

kies (dainty, delicate, fine, molar), iel (airy, dainty, delicate, fine, loose, sandy), gevoelig (accessible, dainty, delicate, fine, impressible, sensitive), delicaat (dainty, delicate, fine). (various references)

Esperanto

delikata (dainty, delicate, fine). (various references)

Finnish

rakoton (plain, plained, seed-free), puhdas (authentic, clean, genuine, honest, plain, plained, pure, seed-free, sound, straight), kirkas (bright, brilliant, clear, limpid, plain, plained, seed-free, shiny). (various references)

French

tendre (reach, reach out), affiné. (various references)

German

verfeinert (rarefies, refines, sophisticated), verfeinerte (rarefied), raffinierte, fein (acute, choice, cunning, dainty, delicate, elegant, excellent, fancy, fashionable, fine, finely, great, keen, nice, nicely, polite, posh, pretty, Savory, savoury, sensitive, smart, splendid, subtle, subtly, swell, tenuous, thin, wispy). (various references)

Greek 

ραφινάτοσ, εκκαθαρισμένοσ (net), εξευγενισμένοσ (cultured, polished), λεπτόσ (dainty, delicate, exquisite, fine, flimsy, gossamery, lank, nice, rangy, sleazy, slender, slight, slim, slimsy, subtile, subtle, svelte, tactful, tenuous, thin, ticklish, waspish). (various references)

Hebrew 

מעו�"ן (delicate, exquisite, graceful, subtle), מזוקק, יפ�" � פש (bleeding heart, gentle, high minded, noble), א� ין �"�"עת (delicate, eclectic, sensitive), בעל � פש (delicate, gentle), צרוף (annexation, combination, pure). (various references)

Hungarian

kifinomult (discerning, sophisticated), finomított (fine), csiszolt (accomplished, burnish, chaste, polished, smooth, sophisticated, suave). (various references)

Italian

delicato (dainty, delicate, fine, gentle, maidenly, sensitive, slight, soft, sore, subtile, subtle, tender, thin, ticklish, touchy, tricky). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

高尚 (advanced, high, noble), 凝った (artistic, elaborate, exquisite, tasty). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

おくゆかしい (graceful, humble, modest), しょうしゃ (casualty, elegant, exposure, firm, injured person, neat, ourcompany, prosperous person, sentry box, small company, small shrine, trading company, trim, victor, winner, wounded person, young person), ぶ�"しつひ�"ぴ�" (handsome and solid in character), か�"が (elegant), �"うが (chaste, elegant, large river, Yangtze and Yellow rivers, Yellow river), �"うしょう (a bite, advanced, announcing publicly, arsenal, artisan, authentication, conferring of an award, connection, discussions, fancy, fashion, high, investigation, licensed prostitution, loud laughter, loud or high-pitched voice, mechanic, negotiations, noble, notarization, occupational injury, oral tradition, ore deposit, passing on by word of mouth, public name, recitation, registered prostitute, school badge, shining, spring of yellow buds, taste, Welfare Minister), �"った (artistic, elaborate, exquisite, tasty), �"�"ろにくい (admirable, superb), ゆかしい (admirable, charming), じょうひ�" (elegant, polished), て�"が (classic, elegance, grace, shop policy, stippling, the Milky Way). (various references)

Korean 

세� �하�". (various references)

Manx

sheelit (clear, clear liquid, distilled, drained, filtered, strained), cooyrtoil (courteous, courtly, polite), aaheelit, aaghlennit (purified). (various references)

Papiamen

delikadu (dainty, delicate, fine), delikado (dainty, delicate, fine). (various references)

Pig Latin

efinedray

Portuguese

refinado (bijou, chic, cultivated, hulled, ladylike, precious, wiredrawn). (various references)

Romanian

rafinat (clever, courtly, dainty, delicate, exquisite, fine, parliamentary, sophisticated, subtle, tenuous), subtil (acute, delicate, fine, fine-spun, insidious, nice, sagacious, shrewd, subtle, subtly, tenuous), subţire (choice, cunning, delicate, filmy, fine, fine-drawn, flimsy, hour-glass, jejune, papery, reedy, shrewd, shrill, skinny, slender, slight, slim, sly, small, spidery, squeamish, stalky, subtle, tall, tenuous, thin, thinly, weak, wiry), purificat, fin (beautiful, choice, delicate, delicately, discriminating, excellent, fine, fine-drawn, finely, fine-spun, godchild, godson, gossamer, graceful, keen, nice, penetrating, quick, select, sharp, shrewd, slender, soft, spidery, subtile, subtly, tenuous), distins (distinguished, eminent, fashionable, gentle, gentlemanlike, grand, high-bred), delicat (captious, dainty, delicate, delicately, fine, fine-spun, finicky, fragile, frail, fussy, gentle, gentlemanlike, gently, mellow, nice, queasy, slender, slim, slippery, soft, subdued, tactful, tender, thin, ticklish, tricky, weak), cultivat (cultivated, well bred). (various references)

Russian 

очищенный (hulled, prepared). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

uglađen (genteel, polished, polite, sleek, slick, smooth, suave, trim), prerađen (recycled, revised), prefinjen (sophisticated, superfine), prečišćen (depurate), otmen (dignified, fashionable, gallant, genteel, nobby, noble, urbane). (various references)

Spanish

fino (choice, dainty, delicate, discriminating, fine, gaunt, genteel, gossamer, ladylike, lean, nice, plain, plained, polished, seed-free, semiprecious, sharp, sheer, shrewd, slender, suave, subtil, subtile, subtle, thin), refinado (beating, courtly, genteel, refining). (various references)

Swedish

renad, raffinerad (sophisticated, studied, subtle), luttrad (fining, plain, plained, plaining, refining, seed-free), fin (aristocratic, bully, choice, clean, dainty, delicate, delicious, dignified, discriminating, elegant, excellent, fine, finespun, first rate, gentee, genteel, grand, handsome, high pitched, keen, ladylike, nice, polished, select, sensitive, slender, smart, soft, superior, swell, tactful, tender, tenuous, thin), elegant (chic, courtly, dasher, dressy, elegant, fashionable, fine, graceful, handsomely, posh, sleek, smart), blåsfri (blister-free, fining, not blistered, plain, plained, plaining, refining, seed-free). (various references)

Thai

สละสลวย, ซึ่งสุ� าพเรียบร้อย, ซึ่งปราศจากสิ่งสกปรก. (various references)

Turkish

rafine, saf (absolute, all, artless, candid, clean, clear, country bumpkin, credulous, deceivable, dewy-eyed, distilled, dupe, elemental, elementary, entire, facile, fine, genuine, greenhorn, gudgeon, guileless, gull, gullible, harmless, homespun, honest, immaculate, ingenuous, innocent, juggins, mere, naïve, pigeon, pristine, pure, pure-minded, rank, raw, real, simple, simple minded, simple simon, simple-hearted, sterling, unadulterated, unalloyed, unblended, uncontaminated, undiluted, unmixed, unsophisticated, unsuspicious, untutored, unworldly, witless), kibar (aristocratic, aristocratical, attentive, blancmange, bland, chivalrous, civil, civilized, courteous, courtly, distingue, Douce, elegant, exquisite, fashionable, gallant, genteel, gentle, kid glove, mild, nice, parliamentary, polished, polite, sharp, urbane, well born, well disposed, well mannered), ince (attenuate, attic, brittle, civilized, courteous, dainty, delicate, fine, fragile, graceful, gracile, gracious, keen, lean, nice, polite, precision, scarious, sharp, slender, slim, subtile, subtle, sylphish, sylphlike, sylphy, tenuous, thin, trickish, tricksy, tricky, urbane, vaporous), işlenmiş (cultivated, finished, worked, wrought), dakik (exact, minute, nice, precise, prompt, punctual, rigorous), arıtılmış (tried). (various references)

Ukranian 

удосконалений (elaborate, improved), рафінований, витончений (airy, attic, bijou, choice, curious, dainty, delicate, elegant, fastidious, fine, lepid, nice, rarefied, slender, slinky, subtile, subtle, super, twee, zing). (various references)

Vietnamese 

tao nhã (decently, polished). (various references)

Welsh

te+r (clear, fine, pure), dillyn (chaste, elegant), dilin, coeth (elegant, fine). (various references)

humana, humanae, humane, humani, humaniora, humanis, humano, humanum, humanus, lautus, munda, mundae, mundam, mundas, mundi, mundis, mundissima, mundissimae, mundissimis, mundissimo, mundo, mundos, mundum, mundus, obrizae, obrizi, obrizum, polita, politis, polito, politorum, politus, pura, puram, puras, purior, purissimam, purissimas, purissimi, purissimo, purissimum, puritatem, puro, purum, purus. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words ending with "refined": overrefined, ultrarefined, unrefined. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Refined" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: raffine, redined, refane, refeened, refence, refend, Reffin, refiled, refixed, refone, remined, resined, rewinde, sefined, trefonnen. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: definer.

-1 letter: defier, define, denier, fender, ferine, finder, friend, nereid, redfin, refind, refine, reined.

-2 letters: defer, diene, diner, eider, ender, fiend, fined, finer, fired, freed, fried, infer, refed.

-3 letters: deer, defi, dene, deni, dere, dine, dire, dree, eide, erne, feed, fend, fere, fern, find, fine, fire, firn, free, ired, need, neif, nerd, nide, rede, reed, reef, reif, rein, rend, ride, rife, rind.

-4 letters: dee, den, die, din, end, ere, ern, fed, fee, fen, fer, fid, fie, fin, fir, ire, nee, red, ree, ref, rei, rid, rif, rin.

-5 letters: de, ed, ef, en, er, id, if, in, ne, re.

+1 letter: befriend, definers, fingered, frenzied, friended, inferred, niffered, redefine.

+2 letters: befriends, befringed, deferring, different, infielder, predefine, redefined, redefines, redefying, refeeding, refrained, reinfused, reunified, unbriefed, unrefined.

+3 letters: befingered, befriended, coinferred, debriefing, dentifrice, difference, federating, federation, ferredoxin, fervidness, firefanged, frenziedly, friendless, friendlier, friendlies, frightened, gentrified, greenfield, identifier, infielders, interfaced, interfered, interfiled, interfused, predefined, predefines, redefining, reedifying, refinanced, refinished, reidentify, reinfected, reinflated, reinforced, reinformed, renotified, resinified, unfiltered, unfriended, unverified, viewfinder.

+4 letters: befriending, centrifuged, debriefings, deferential, defibrinate, deflowering, deforesting, denitrified, denitrifier, denitrifies, dentifrices, differenced, differences, differentia, differently, federations, ferredoxins, forefending, fraternized, freeloading, frenchified, friendliest, identifiers, indemnifier, indifferent, interfolded, misinferred, overfeeding, overrefined, personified, predefining, prefinanced, prenotified, reconfirmed, redefeating, redefecting, refashioned, refurnished, uncertified, viewfinders.

+5 letters: counterfired, decertifying, defibrinated, defibrinates, denitrifiers, differencing, differentiae, differential, draftinesses, enfranchised, fainthearted, federalizing, ferricyanide, ferrocyanide, fervidnesses, fingerpicked, floridnesses, foreordained, fragmentized, freestanding, friendliness, frigidnesses, handkerchief, indemnifiers, indifference, indifferency, interdiffuse, intergrafted, noncertified, overidentify, overinflated, overinformed, presignified, pridefulness, reconfigured, redefinition, reidentified, reidentifies, ultrarefined, underfeeding, undersheriff, unfertilized, unfriendlier, ungentrified, unreinforced.

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