refined
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
refine/rɪˈfʌɪn/
▶verb
- 1 remove impurities or unwanted elements from.
- 2 make minor changes so as to improve (a theory or method).
- 3 (as adj. refined) elegant and cultured.
– derivatives
refiner noun.
refiner noun.
'refined' also found in these Oxford entries:
Augustan
- brown sugar
- courtly
- couth
- crude
- cultivate
- culture
- cultured
- cupel
- effete
- genteel
- niminy-piminy
- patrician
- petroleum
- polite
- precious
- product
- quintessence
- rarefied
- refine
- refinery
- spirit
- unadjusted
- unsophisticated
- urbane
- vulgarize
- well spoken
- white
