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adj. perfected or made shiny and smooth; "his polished prose"; "in a freshly ironed dress and polished shoes"; "freshly polished silver"

dressed, polished

adj. (of lumber or stone) to trim and smooth

polished, refined, svelte, urbane

adj. 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"

agleam, gleaming, nitid

adj. bright with a steady but subdued shining; "from the plane we saw the city below agleam with lights"; "the gleaming brass on the altar"; "Nereids beneath the nitid moon"

shining

adj. reflecting light; "glistening bodies of swimmers"; "the horse's glossy coat"; "lustrous auburn hair"; "saw the moon like a shiny dime on a deep blue velvet carpet"; "shining white enamel"

sleek

adj. well-groomed and neatly tailored; especially too well-groomed; "sleek figures in expensive clothes"

elegant, graceful, refined

adj. suggesting taste, ease, and wealth

dainty

adj. especially pleasing to the taste; "a dainty dish to set before a kind";

elegant

adj. refined and tasteful in appearance or behavior or style; "elegant handwriting"; "an elegant dark suit"; "she was elegant to her fingertips"; "small churches with elegant white spires"; "an elegant mathematical solution--simple and precise and lucid"

cosmopolitan, widely distributed

adj. growing or occurring in many parts of the world; "a cosmopolitan herb"; "cosmopolitan in distribution"

aesthetic, esthetic, artistic

adj. aesthetically pleasing; "an artistic flower arrangement"

civilized, civilised, cultivated, cultured, genteel, polite

adj. marked by refinement in taste and manners; "cultivated speech"; "cultured Bostonians"; "cultured tastes"; "a genteel old lady"; "polite society"

refined

adj. (used of persons and their behavior) cultivated and genteel; "she was delicate and refined and unused to hardship"; "refined people with refined taste"

neat, refined, tasteful

adj. free from what is tawdry or unbecoming; "a neat style"; "a neat set of rules"; "she hated to have her neat plans upset"

exquisite, recherche

adj. lavishly elegant and refined

glorious, resplendent, splendid, splendiferous

adj. having great beauty and splendor; "a glorious spring morning"; "a glorious sunset"; "splendid costumes"; "a kind of splendiferous native simplicity"

courtly, formal, stately

adj. refined or imposing in manner or appearance; befitting a royal court; "a courtly gentleman"

mannered

adj. having unnatural mannerisms; "brief, mannered and unlifelike idiom"

debonair, debonaire, debonnaire, suave

adj. having a sophisticated charm; "a debonair gentleman"

graceful

adj. characterized by beauty of movement, style, form, or execution

easy

adj. affording comfort; "soft light that was easy on the eyes"

collected, equanimous, poised, self-collected, self-contained, self-possessed

adj. in full control of your faculties; "the witness remained collected throughout the cross-examination"; "perfectly poised and sure of himself"; "more self-contained and more dependable than many of the early frontiersmen"; "strong and self-possessed in the face of trouble"

skilled

adj. having or showing or requiring special skill; "only the most skilled gymnasts make an Olympic team"; "a skilled surgeon has many years of training and experience"; "a skilled reconstruction of her damaged elbow"; "a skilled trade"

balanced

adj. being in a state of proper equilibrium; "the carefully balanced seesaw"; "a properly balanced symphony orchestra"; "a balanced assessment of intellectual and cultural history"; "a balanced blend of whiskeys"; "the educated man shows a balanced development of all his powers"

tasteful

adj. having or showing or conforming to good taste

erudite, learned

adj. having or showing profound knowledge; "a learned jurist"; "an erudite professor"

literary

adj. knowledgeable about literature; "a literary style"

sophisticated

adj. intellectually appealing; "a sophisticated drama"

clean-cut, trig, trim

adj. neat and smart in appearance; "a clean-cut and well-bred young man"; "the trig corporal in his jaunty cap"; "a trim beard"

refined

adj. (used of persons and their behavior) cultivated and genteel; "she was delicate and refined and unused to hardship"; "refined people with refined taste"

fattened

adj. (of market animals) made ready for market

advanced, highly-developed

adj. ahead in development; complex or intricate; "advanced technology"; "a sophisticated electronic control system"

blase, worldly

adj. very sophisticated especially because of surfeit; versed in the ways of the world; "the blase traveler refers to the ocean he has crossed as `the pond'"; "the benefits of his worldly wisdom"

intelligent, well-informed

adj. possessing sound knowledge; "well-informed readers"

unpolished

adj. not carefully reworked or perfected or made smooth by polishing; "dull unpolished shoes"

dull, thudding

adj. not clear and resonant; sounding as if striking with or against something relatively soft; "the dull thud"; "thudding bullets"

unburnished

adj. of metals e.g.; not made shiny and smooth by friction

coarse, common, rough-cut, uncouth, vulgar

adj. lacking refinement or cultivation or taste; "he had coarse manners but a first-rate mind"; "behavior that branded him as common"; "an untutored and uncouth human being"; "an uncouth soldier--a real tough guy"; "appealing to the vulgar taste for violence"; "the vulgar display of the newly rich"

boorish, loutish, neanderthal, neandertal, oafish, swinish

adj. ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance; "was boorish and insensitive"; "the loutish manners of a bully"; "her stupid oafish husband"; "aristocratic contempt for the swinish multitude"

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