Definitions for refined

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refined re·fined

Spelling: [ri-fahynd]

IPA: /rɪˈfaɪnd/

Refined is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 159 anagrams from letters in refined (deefinr).

Definitions for refined

adjective

1. having or showing well-bred feeling, taste, etc.:
2. freed or free from coarseness, vulgarity, etc.:
3. freed from impurities:
4. very subtle, precise, or exact:

Verb phrases

1. refine on/upon, to improve by inserting finer distinctions, superior elements, etc.:

verb (used with object)

1. to bring to a fine or a pure state; free from impurities:
2. to purify from what is coarse, vulgar, or debasing; make elegant or cultured.
3. to bring to a finer state or form by purifying.
4. to make more fine, subtle, or precise:

verb (used without object)

1. to become pure:
2. to become more fine, elegant, or polished:
3. to make fine distinctions in thought or language.

Origin of refined

First recorded in 1565-75; refine + -ed²

Examples for refined

Not in vain you live, for every passing eye is cheered and refined by the vision.

From the refined attire at Lincoln Center to the avant-garde dress downtown, we spotted many of the big 2014 trends.

Sympathetic persons are apt to assume that every refined emotion must be ennobling.

In refined form, sugar (also known as sucrose) has been linked to everything from heart disease to diabetes.

But it is in graceful, refined France that cookery is and has been, a pet art.

refined, elegant, and to the manor born, Betty is everything that Don is not.

To produce deliciously smooth drams of single malt, the region has refined the ancient art of distillation.

His accent was none of the Elberthal one; it was fine, refined, polished.

Major Harper, the oldest, most refined and most soldierly of them all, was also the handsomest.

Stacks of refined (left) and crude (right) Tin ingots after smelting.