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WIKTIONARY
refined
Verb
∙
simple past tense and past participle of
refine
Adjective
∙
Precise, freed from imprecision,
particularly:
∙
Sagacious,
sometimes
oversubtle or feigning sagacity.
pejorative
∙
Subtle, scrupulous, carefully thought out.
of thought
∙
Developed, improved.
of processes
∙
Cultured, freed from vulgarity,
particularly:
∙
Elevated and polished.
of language
∙
Elegant,
sometimes
affected, prissy, or bloodless.
pejorative
∙
Purified, reduced in or freed from impurities,
particularly:
∙
Highly-processed and pure.
of products
∙
Free of dross or alloy.
of metal
∙
Morally pure.
of people, obsolete
∙
Dealing in a refined product such as sugar or petroleum.
of a market
Noun
∙
The refined form of a commodity, as opposed to its raw or generic form.
finance
refine
Verb
∙
To reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; to free from impurities; to free from dross or alloy; to separate from extraneous matter; to purify
∙
To purify from what is gross, coarse, vulgar, inelegant, low, and the like; to make elegant or excellent; to polish.
∙
To become pure; to be cleared of feculent matter.
∙
To improve in accuracy, delicacy, or excellence.
∙
To affect nicety or subtlety in thought or language.