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refined

/rɪ'faɪnd/

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adjective
suggesting taste, ease, and wealth
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elegant graceful gracious
adjective
freed from impurities by processing
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"refined sugar" "refined oil" "to gild refined gold"

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processed

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unrefined
adjective
showing a high degree of refinement and the assurance that comes from wide social experience
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polished urbane sophisticated
adjective
precise to a fine degree
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"due to the limitations of the available tools, a more refined analysis of the data may be necessary"

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precise
adjective
(used of persons and their behavior) cultivated and genteel
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"she was delicate and refined and unused to hardship" "refined people with refined taste"

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delicate effete finespun genteel gentlemanlike gentlemanly ladylike mincing niminy-piminy overrefined patrician polite prim suave superfine twee well-bred well-mannered civilised civilized couth cultivated cultured debonair debonaire debonnaire

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unrefined

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