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refined |
Troponyms (hyponyms) of verb refine 2 of 6 senses of refine Sense 1 polish, refine, fine-tune, down => educate, school, train, cultivate, civilize, civilise Sense 2 complicate, refine, rarify, elaborate => involve => develop => sophisticate Troponyms (hyponyms) of verb refine 2 of 6 senses of refine Sense 1 polish, refine, fine-tune, down => educate, school, train, cultivate, civilize, civilise => sophisticate Sense 2 complicate, refine, rarify, elaborate => involve => develop => sophisticate Entailment of verb refine Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Frequency) of verb refine 6 senses of refine Sense 1 polish, refine, fine-tune, down => better, improve, amend, ameliorate, meliorate Sense 2 complicate, refine, rarify, elaborate => change, alter Sense 3 refine => process, treat Sense 4 refine => purify, sublimate, make pure, distill Sense 5 refine => attenuate Sense 6 refine => change, alter Familiarity of verb refine refine used as a verb is common (polysemy count = 6) Synonyms (Grouped by Similarity of Meaning) of verb refine Sense 1 polish, refine, fine-tune, down => better, improve, amend, ameliorate, meliorate -------------- Sense 2 complicate, refine, rarify, elaborate => change, alter -------------- Sense 3 refine => process, treat -------------- Sense 4 refine => purify, sublimate, make pure, distill -------------- Sense 5 refine => attenuate -------------- Sense 6 refine => change, alter -------------- Grep of noun refined refined sugar Overview of verb refine The verb refine has 6 senses (first 2 from tagged texts) 1. (2) polish, refine, fine-tune, down -- (improve or perfect by pruning or polishing; "refine one's style of writing") 2. (1) complicate, refine, rarify, elaborate -- (make more complex, intricate, or richer; "refine a design or pattern") 3. refine -- (treat or prepare so as to put in a usable condition; "refine paper stock"; "refine pig iron"; "refine oil") 4. refine -- (reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; separate from extraneous matter or cleanse from impurities; "refine sugar") 5. refine -- (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") 6. refine -- (make more precise or increase the discriminatory powers of "refine a method of analysis"; "refine the constant in the equation") Overview of adj refined The adj refined has 6 senses (first 2 from tagged texts) 1. (2) refined -- (used of persons and their behavior; cultivated and genteel; "she was delicate and refined and unused to hardship"; "refined people with refined taste") 2. (1) refined, processed -- (freed from impurities by processing; "refined sugar"; "refined oil"; "to gild refined gold"- Shakespeare) 3. polished, refined, svelte, urbane -- (showing a high degree of refinement and the assurance that comes from wide social experience; "his polished manner"; "maintained an urbane tone in his letters") 4. purified, refined, sublimate -- (made pure) 5. elegant, graceful, refined -- (suggesting taste, ease, and wealth) 6. neat, refined, tasteful -- (free from what is tawdry or unbecoming; "a neat style"; "a neat set of rules"; "she hated to have her neat plans upset") Antonyms of adj refined 6 senses of refined Sense 1 refined (vs. unrefined) unrefined (vs. refined) => agrestic => artless, uncultivated, uncultured => boorish, loutish, neanderthal, neandertal, oafish, swinish => coarse, common, uncouth, vulgar => crass => ill-bred, bounderish, lowbred, rude, underbred, yokelish => low => robust => rough => rough-spoken => ungentlemanly, ungentlemanlike => unladylike Sense 2 refined (vs. unrefined), processed unrefined (vs. refined), unprocessed, crude Sense 3 polished, refined, svelte, urbane INDIRECT (VIA sophisticated) -> naive, naif Sense 4 purified, refined, sublimate INDIRECT (VIA pure) -> impure Sense 5 elegant, graceful, refined INDIRECT (VIA gracious) -> ungracious Sense 6 neat, refined, tasteful INDIRECT (VIA elegant) -> inelegant Similarity of adj refined 6 senses of refined Sense 1 refined (vs. unrefined) => civilized, civilised, cultivated, cultured, genteel, polite => couth => dainty, mincing, niminy-piminy, prim, twee => debonair, debonaire, debonnaire, suave => finespun, delicate => gentlemanlike, gentlemanly => ladylike => overrefined, superfine => well-bred, well-mannered Also See-> civilized#1, civilised#1; elegant#1; fastidious#1; gracious#1; polished#1 Sense 2 refined (vs. unrefined), processed Sense 3 polished, refined, svelte, urbane => sophisticated (vs. naive) Sense 4 purified, refined, sublimate => pure (vs. impure) Sense 5 elegant, graceful, refined => gracious (vs. ungracious) Sense 6 neat, refined, tasteful => elegant (vs. inelegant) Attributes of adj refined Familiarity of adj refined refined used as an adjective is common (polysemy count = 6) Grep of adj refined overrefined refined unrefined Overview of verb refine The verb refine has 6 senses (first 2 from tagged texts) 1. (2) polish, refine, fine-tune, down -- (improve or perfect by pruning or polishing; "refine one's style of writing") 2. (1) complicate, refine, rarify, elaborate -- (make more complex, intricate, or richer; "refine a design or pattern") 3. refine -- (treat or prepare so as to put in a usable condition; "refine paper stock"; "refine pig iron"; "refine oil") 4. refine -- (reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; separate from extraneous matter or cleanse from impurities; "refine sugar") 5. refine -- (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") 6. refine -- (make more precise or increase the discriminatory powers of "refine a method of analysis"; "refine the constant in the equation") Overview of adj refined The adj refined has 6 senses (first 2 from tagged texts) 1. (2) refined -- (used of persons and their behavior; cultivated and genteel; "she was delicate and refined and unused to hardship"; "refined people with refined taste") 2. (1) refined, processed -- (freed from impurities by processing; "refined sugar"; "refined oil"; "to gild refined gold"- Shakespeare) 3. polished, refined, svelte, urbane -- (showing a high degree of refinement and the assurance that comes from wide social experience; "his polished manner"; "maintained an urbane tone in his letters") 4. purified, refined, sublimate -- (made pure) 5. elegant, graceful, refined -- (suggesting taste, ease, and wealth) 6. neat, refined, tasteful -- (free from what is tawdry or unbecoming; "a neat style"; "a neat set of rules"; "she hated to have her neat plans upset")
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