Antonym: vulgar. Similar words: define, refill, definite, definable, definition, definitely, definitive, firefighter. Meaning: [rɪ'faɪnd] adj. 1. (used of persons and their behavior) cultivated and genteel 2. freed from impurities by processing 3. showing a high degree of refinement and the assurance that comes from wide social experience 4. made pure 5. suggesting taste, ease, and wealth 6. free from what is tawdry or unbecoming.
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61 As a child becomes better able to generalize across stimuli, schemata become more refined.
62 They have refined the art of finger-pointing, name-calling and personal blame.
63 Why should popular opinion hold that brown bread or brown sugar are so much healthier than the refined, white versions?
64 The Law Commission could readily produce a definition, which could be refined by Parliament.
65 Read the labels on the foods you buy and you will be surprised at the number of hidden sources of refined sugar.
66 Minimum operating levels are stockpiles of crude and refined products held by refiners that are considered adequate to meet average seasonal demand.
67 It is claimed in the Preface that the index has been refined to minimise increase in the overall size of the volume.
68 A diet too high in refined sugar and fat will predispose to either obesity or shortage of nutrients, including minerals.
69 Those refined beasts were a small sample of the diversity of their wild ancestors.
70 Much of this wealth was deposited with London goldsmiths who refined gold and made gold ornaments and jewellery.
71 Others, the cuckoos included, are more refined birds and concentrate on just a few victims.
72 A more refined technique called Cyclocontrol replaced this system in the early 1970s.
73 The methods have been refined over the years, but not radically changed.
74 In junior high, she refined them, sent them off to contests, then scribbled more.
75 From the sunlit atrium with its glass elevator to the tasteful rooms and thoughtful service, this hotel shines with refined comfort.
76 But the traders did not become correspondingly more refined in their behavior.
77 Even though Giddens has further refined the detail of the theory, this basic aspect has not changed.
78 The food could be described as healthy, rather than refined.
79 Lesser men, together with the conscientious and immeasurably learned John Stuart Mill, refined, developed and organized the ideas.
80 The increase in world demand for refined gallium, which has no naturally occurring ore,[http://sentencedict.com/refined.html] is reflected in the market.
81 The thing to avoid or at least cut down on is refined sugar and the products that contain it.
82 Project Merit Number A slightly more refined method of handling the data is shown in Table 4.2.
83 Larry's a builder, Robin's an art dealer, a refined, elegant and sensitive man.
84 As the foragers grow older they move from a juvenile taste for sweet nectar to a more refined preference for pollen.
85 It was not so different from the modern, much more refined auto-landing system we take for granted today.
86 If this abbreviated plan is convincing, then it can be refined to a more nearly faithful one.
87 And yet many foods are now refined to such an extent that the natural fibre has been removed.
88 Like all skills, it can be harnessed and refined by use and practice.
89 Local oil companies want a 10 percent tariff on refined petroleum products and 3 percent duty for imported crude oil.
90 Though they seemed to have refined the outward form of marriage, I suspected that underneath not everything ran smoothly.
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