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Adjectives (12)
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"
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, 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"
elegant, graceful
adj. suggesting taste, ease, and wealth
sublimate, purified
adj. made pure
urbane, polished, svelte, cultured
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"
Fuzzynyms (179)
pleasing, aesthetic, artistic
adj. aesthetically pleasing; "an artistic flower arrangement"
urbane, refined, polished, svelte, cultured
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"
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, magnificent, 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, elegant, 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"
distinguished, imposing, magisterial
adj. used of a person's appearance or behavior; befitting an eminent person; "his distinguished bearing"; "the monarch's imposing presence"; "she reigned in magisterial beauty"
graceful
adj. characterized by beauty of movement, style, form, or execution
easy
adj. affording pleasure; "easy good looks"
collected, equanimous, poised, self-collected, 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 balance or 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"
in good taste, tasteful
adj. having or showing or conforming to good taste
learned, erudite
adj. having or showing profound knowledge; "a learned jurist"; "an erudite professor"
polished, literary, well-written
adj. knowledgeable about literature; "a literary style"
sophisticated, intellectually appealing
adj. intellectually appealing; "a sophisticated drama"
satin, slick, sleek, glossy, satiny, silken, silky
adj. having a smooth, gleaming surface; "glossy auburn hair"; "satiny gardenia petals"; "sleek black fur"; "silken eyelashes"; "silky skin"; "a silklike fabric"; "slick seals and otters"
graceful
adj. characterized by beauty of movement, style, form, or execution
charming
adj. pleasing or delighting; "endowed with charming manners"; "a charming little cottage"; "a charming personality"
fair, bonny, bonnie, comely
adj. very pleasing to the eye; "my bonny lass"; "there's a bonny bay beyond"; "a comely face"; "young fair maidens"
lovely
adj. appealing to the emotions as well as the eye
pretty
adj. pleasing by delicacy or grace; not imposing; "pretty girl"; "pretty song"; "pretty room"
in good taste, tasteful
adj. having or showing or conforming to good taste
pleasing, aesthetic, artistic
adj. aesthetically pleasing; "an artistic flower arrangement"
urbane, refined, polished, svelte, cultured
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"
civilized, polite, cultivated, cultured, genteel
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"
glorious, magnificent, 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, elegant, 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, suave, polished, debonnaire
adj. having a sophisticated charm; "a debonair gentleman"
distinguished, imposing, magisterial
adj. used of a person's appearance or behavior; befitting an eminent person; "his distinguished bearing"; "the monarch's imposing presence"; "she reigned in magisterial beauty"
easy
adj. affording pleasure; "easy good looks"
collected, equanimous, poised, self-collected, 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 balance or 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"
urbane, refined, polished, svelte, cultured
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"
fine, dainty, exquisite
adj. delicately beautiful; "a dainty teacup"; "an exquisite cameo"
dainty, prim, mincing, niminy-piminy, twee
adj. affectedly dainty or refined
exquisite, recherche
adj. lavishly elegant and refined
graceful
adj. characterized by beauty of movement, style, form, or execution
elegant, refined, graceful
adj. suggesting taste, ease, and wealth
fine, dainty, exquisite
adj. delicately beautiful; "a dainty teacup"; "an exquisite cameo"
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"
pleasing, aesthetic, artistic
adj. aesthetically pleasing; "an artistic flower arrangement"
civilized, polite, cultivated, cultured, genteel
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, magnificent, 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, elegant, 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, suave, polished, debonnaire
adj. having a sophisticated charm; "a debonair gentleman"
graceful
adj. characterized by beauty of movement, style, form, or execution
easy
adj. affording pleasure; "easy good looks"
collected, equanimous, poised, self-collected, 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 balance or 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"
in good taste, tasteful
adj. having or showing or conforming to good taste
learned, erudite
adj. having or showing profound knowledge; "a learned jurist"; "an erudite professor"
polished, literary, well-written
adj. knowledgeable about literature; "a literary style"
sophisticated, intellectually appealing
adj. intellectually appealing; "a sophisticated drama"
trim, trig, spruce, smart, neat, well-groomed
adj. of persons
Synonyms (59)
civilized
adj. having a high state of culture and development both social and technological; "terrorist acts that shocked the civilized world"
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"
fastidious
adj. giving careful attention to detail; hard to please; excessively concerned with cleanliness; "a fastidious and incisive intellect"; "fastidious about personal cleanliness"
gracious
adj. characterized by charm, good taste, and generosity of spirit; "gracious even to unexpected visitors"; "gracious living"; "he bears insult with gracious good humor"
polished
adj. perfected or made shiny and smooth; "his polished prose"; "in a freshly ironed dress and polished shoes"; "freshly polished silver"
clarified
adj. free from unwanted solid matter
computerized
adj. stored, processed, analyzed, or generated by computer
cured, vulcanized
adj. (used of rubber) treated by a chemical or physical process to improve its properties (hardness and strength and odor and elasticity)
finished
adj. (of materials or goods) brought to the desired final state; "a finished product"
rubberized, rubberised
adj. treated, coated, or impregnated with rubber: "rubberized cloth"
semi-processed
adj. having been subjected to partial processing
bijou
adj. small and elegant: "bijou villas"; "can Americans be persuaded to pay out dollars for bijou cars?"
dandified, dandyish, foppish
adj. affecting extreme elegance in dress and manner
luxury, deluxe, luxe, de luxe
adj. elegant and sumptuous; "a deluxe car"; "luxe accommodations"
fine, smart
adj. characterized by elegance or refinement or accomplishment; "fine wine"; "looking fine in her Easter suit"; "a fine gentleman"; "fine china and crystal"; "a fine violinist"; "the fine hand of a master"
high-class, high-toned
adj. pretentiously elegant; "a high-toned restaurant"
exquisite, recherche
adj. lavishly elegant and refined
swank, ritzy, swanky
adj. luxuriously elegant
simple
adj. cleverly simple; used of a solution to a problem e.g.
soigne, well-groomed, soigné
adj. polished and well-groomed; showing sophisticated elegance
cordial
adj. sincerely or intensely felt; "a cordial regard for his visitor's comfort"; "a cordial abhorrence of waste"
merciful
adj. (used conventionally of royalty and high nobility) gracious; "our merciful king"
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"
axenic, uncontaminated
adj. used of cultures of microorganisms; not contaminated by or completely free of the presence of other organisms; "an axenic culture"
clean, unpolluted
adj. "clean water"; "unpolluted streams"
clear
adj. (of sound or color) free from anything that dulls or dims; "efforts to obtain a clean bass in orchestral recordings"; "clear laughter like a waterfall"; "clear reds and blues"; "a light lilting voice like a silver bell"
fine
adj. free from impurities; having a high or specified degree of purity; "gold 21 carats fine"
native
adj. as found in nature in the elemental form; "native copper"
plain, sheer, unmixed, unmingled
adj. not mixed with extraneous elements; "plain water"; "sheer wine"; "not an unmixed blessing"
unadulterated
adj. not mixed with impurities; "unadulterated maple syrup"
unalloyed
adj. free from admixture; "unalloyed metal"; "unalloyed pleasure"
undefiled, uncorrupted
adj. (of language) not having its purity or excellence debased; "uncorrupted English"; "learn to speak pure English undefiled"- Van Wyck Brooks
advanced, highly-developed
adj. ahead in development; complex or intricate; "advanced technology"; "a sophisticated electronic control system"
knowing, 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"
Antonyms (48)
unrefined
adj. (used of persons and their behavior) not refined; uncouth; "how can a refined girl be drawn to such an unrefined man?"
common, crude, vulgar, coarse
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"
crass
adj. (of persons) so unrefined as to be lacking in discrimination and sensibility
rude, underbred, ill-bred, bounderish, lowbred, uncouth
adj. (of persons) lacking in refinement or grace
coarse
adj. of textures that are rough to the touch or substances consisting of relatively large particles; "coarse meal"; "coarse sand"; "a coarse weave"
primitive, crude, barbarous, gothic
adj. belonging to an early stage of technical development; characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness; "the crude weapons and rude agricultural implements of early man"; "primitive movies of the 1890s"; "primitive living conditions in the Appalachian mountains"
flash, gaudy, brassy, vulgar, flashy, cheap, loud, meretricious, tawdry, garish, gimcrack, tacky, trashy
adj. tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments"
tactless, untactful
adj. lacking or showing a lack of what is fitting and considerate in dealing with others; "in the circumstances it was tactless to ask her age"
tasteless, in poor taste
adj. lacking aesthetic or social taste
flash, gaudy, brassy, vulgar, flashy, cheap, loud, meretricious, tawdry, garish, gimcrack, tacky, trashy
adj. tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments"
impure
adj. combined with extraneous elements
refined
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