Adjective: refined
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more refined |
| Superlative | most refined |
Sample Sentences
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The argument, while not persuasive, is quite refined.
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The curriculum has been carefully refined to meet the needs of foreign students.
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In the British Isles, Oxbridge is considered refined; Geordie somewhat less so.
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Don Draper was a man of refined tastes.
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"Jesus Christ! Was my folks refined. My mam she wouldn't think-a lettin' us young'uns call a pee pot a pee pot. A chamber's what she called it... And by God! Us young'uns had ter call the pee pot a chamber or git our God damn necks wrang." [1946, Elizabeth Metzger Howard, Before the Sun Goes Down, page 31:]
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Under current guidelines, refined sugar must be at least five times purer than its raw counterpart.
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The Temple at Jerusalem preferred Tyrian shekels, since even with Ba'al's portrait they bore highly refined silver.
Adjectives inflected like refined
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology