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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