refined

Meanings

• improve or perfect by pruning or polishing
• make more complex, intricate, or richer
• treat or prepare so as to put in a usable condition
• reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; separate from extraneous matter or cleanse from impurities
• 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"
• make more precise or increase the discriminatory powers of
• (used of persons and their behavior) cultivated and genteel
  • "she was delicate and refined and unused to hardship"
  • "refined people with refined taste"
• freed from impurities by processing; ; ; - Shakespeare
  • "refined sugar"
  • "refined oil"
  • "to gild refined gold"
• showing a high degree of refinement and the assurance that comes from wide social experience
• suggesting taste, ease, and wealth
• free from what is tawdry or unbecoming

Synonyms

complicate, down, elaborate, elegant, fine-tune, graceful, neat, polish, polished, processed, rarify, rectify, refine, svelte, tasteful, urbane