refined

refined

adj

Definition of REFINED

1

: free from impurities

2

: fastidious, cultivated

3

: precise, exact <a refined test for radioactivity>

Examples of REFINED

1. She has become more refined in her painting technique.
2. He has very refined manners.
3. refined and elegant works of art

First Known Use of REFINED

1582

Related to REFINED

Synonyms: developed, evolved, forward, high, higher, improved, late, progressive, advanced

Antonyms: backward, low, lower, nonprogressive, primitive, retarded, rude, rudimentary, undeveloped

Related Words: precocious; full-blown, full-fledged, full-scale; aged, grown, mature, matured, perfected, ripe, ripened; civilized, educated, enhanced, enlightened; contemporary, current, cutting-edge, latest, leading-edge, mod, modern, new, newest, newfangled, new-fashioned, novel, now, present-day, recent, space-age, supermodern, ultramodern, up-to-date

Near Antonyms: green, immature, underdeveloped, undersized (also undersize), underweight, unripe, unripened; savage, uncivilized, uneducated; early, embryonic, germinal, primeval, primordial; antediluvian, antiquated, antique, dated, fusty, hoary, musty, Neanderthal (or Neandertal), obsolete, old, oldfangled, old-fashioned, old-time, out-of-date, outworn, passé, past

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Rhymes with REFINED

affined, behind, confined, fly blind, inclined, in-kind, mankind, month's mind, night-blind, purblind, remind, rewind, sand-blind, snow-blind, spellbind, stone-blind, streamlined, unbind, unkind, unwind