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Refined vs. Elegant — What's the Difference?

Refined vs. Elegant — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Refined and Elegant

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Refined

Free from coarseness or vulgarity; polite.

Elegant

Characterized by or exhibiting refined, tasteful beauty of manner, form, or style.

Refined

Free of impurities; purified.

Elegant

Characterised by or exhibiting elegance.

Refined

Precise to a fine degree.
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Elegant

Characterised by minimalism and intuitiveness while preserving exactness and precision.
An elegant solution

Refined

Simple past tense and past participle of refine
The raw petroleum was refined into kerosene.

Elegant

Fine; doing well.

Refined

Precise, freed from imprecision, particularly:

Elegant

Very choice, and hence, pleasing to good taste; characterized by grace, propriety, and refinement, and the absence of every thing offensive; exciting admiration and approbation by symmetry, completeness, freedom from blemish, and the like; graceful; tasteful and highly attractive; as, elegant manners; elegant style of composition; an elegant speaker; an elegant structure.
A more diligent cultivation of elegant literature.

Refined

Sagacious, sometimes oversubtle or feigning sagacity.

Elegant

Exercising a nice choice; discriminating beauty or sensitive to beauty; as, elegant taste.

Refined

Subtle, scrupulous, carefully thought out.
The argument, while not persuasive, is quite refined.

Elegant

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

Refined

Developed, improved.
The curriculum has been carefully refined to meet the needs of foreign students.

Elegant

Suggesting taste, ease, and wealth

Refined

Cultured, freed from vulgarity, particularly:

Elegant

Of seemingly effortless beauty in form or proportion

Refined

Elevated and polished.
In the British Isles, Oxbridge is considered refined; Geordie somewhat less so.

Elegant

Refined or imposing in manner or appearance; befitting a royal court;
A courtly gentleman

Refined

Elegant, sometimes affected, prissy, or bloodless.
Don Draper was a man of refined tastes.

Refined

Purified, reduced in or freed from impurities, particularly:

Refined

Highly-processed and pure.
Under current guidelines, refined sugar must be at least five times purer than its raw counterpart.

Refined

Free of dross or alloy.
The Temple at Jerusalem preferred Tyrian shekels, since even with Ba'al's portrait they bore highly refined silver.

Refined

Morally pure.

Refined

Dealing in a refined product such as sugar or petroleum.

Refined

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.

Refined

Freed from impurities or alloy; purifed; polished; cultured; delicate; as; refined gold; refined language; refined sentiments.
Refined wits who honored poesy with their pens.

Refined

Used of persons and their behavior; cultivated and genteel;
She was delicate and refined and unused to hardship
Refined people with refined taste

Refined

Freed from impurities by processing;
Refined sugar
Refined oil
To gild refined gold

Refined

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

Refined

Made pure

Refined

Suggesting taste, ease, and wealth

Refined

Free from what is tawdry or unbecoming;
A neat style
A neat set of rules
She hated to have her neat plans upset

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