refined
Americanadjective
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having or showing well-bred feeling, taste, etc..
refined people.
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freed or free from coarseness, vulgarity, etc..
refined taste.
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freed from impurities.
refined sugar.
- Synonyms:
- distilled
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very subtle, precise, or exact.
refined distinctions.
adjective
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not coarse or vulgar; genteel, elegant, or polite
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subtle; discriminating
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freed from impurities; purified
Other Word Forms
- half-refined adjective
- nonrefined adjective
- quasi-refined adjective
- refinedly adverb
- refinedness noun
- semirefined adjective
- superrefined adjective
- ultrarefined adjective
- well-refined adjective
Etymology
Origin of refined
Example Sentences
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Backtrack a few years, though and he was head of Cargill’s refined oils trading operation in the Western hemisphere — with the additional responsibility of managing the company’s commodity business in Venezuela.
From MarketWatch
That report, arriving about three weeks later than usual, will be refined in two successively more accurate estimates in the months that follow, in accordance with the BEA’s usual practice.
Often produced for taste and shelf life, ultraprocessed foods have drawn growing scrutiny from health officials and researchers due to their high amounts of refined ingredients and artificial additives.
From Barron's
The new guidelines call for reducing refined carbs—think white bread—and recommend that people eat two to four servings of whole grains each day.
Increased crude output from Venezuela threatens to displace the roughly 400,000 barrels a day of Canadian oil refined in the U.S.
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