Haettu sana löytyi näillä lähdekielillä:
- Refined on
sanan refine partisiipin perfekti.
- Refined on
sanan refine imperfekti.
- Refined on
sanan refine taipunut muoto.
Määritelmät
Adjektiivi
- Precise, freed from imprecision, particularly:
- (of people, obsolete) Sagacious, sometimes (derogatory) oversubtle or feigning sagacity.
- (of thought) Subtle, scrupulous, carefully thought out.
- (of processes) Developed, improved.
- Cultured, freed from vulgarity, particularly:
- (of language) Elevated and polished.
- (of people) Elegant, sometimes (derogatory) affected, prissy, or bloodless.
- Purified, reduced in or freed from impurities, particularly:
- (of products) Highly-processed and pure.
- (of metal) Free of dross or alloy.
- (of people, obsolete) Morally pure.
- (of a market) Dealing in a refined product such as sugar or petroleum.
Substantiivi
- (finance) The refined form of a commodity, as opposed to its raw or generic form.
Esimerkit
- Ozzie and Harriet are refined people.
- The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite.[...]Can those harmless but refined fellow-diners be the selfish cads whose gluttony and personal appearance so raised your contemptuous wrath on your arrival?
- The sugar was refined, not gritty.
- The raw petroleum was refined into kerosene.
Taivutusmuodot