refined
/ɹɪˈfaɪnd/ noun C2- The refined form of a commodity, as opposed to its raw or generic form. · We're still purchasing copper ore, but the market for refined is weaker.
Plural refineds
From the library
"Because the faculties become refined when you starve them.
She was pretty in a refined way; and her eye was both merry and kind.
The oval face was lengthened, his smiling mouth had assumed the firm and marked lines which betoken resolution; his eyebrows were arched beneath a brow furrowed with thought; his eyes were full of melancholy, and from their depths occasionally sparkled gloomy fires of misanthropy and hatred; his complexion, so long kept from the sun, had now that pale color which produces, when the features are encircled with black hair, the aristocratic beauty of the man of the north; the profound learning he had acquired had besides diffused over his features a refined intellectual expression; and he had also acquired, being naturally of a goodly stature, that vigor which a frame possesses which has so long concentrated all its force within itself.
“It is murder, Watson—refined, cold-blooded, deliberate murder.
Other matches
Learn refined in real texts
With a free account, hover any word in the library for its meaning, hear it read aloud, save words for review timed to your memory, and see how much of each book you already know.