-nd adjective
1. : free from impurities
to gild refined gold, to paint the lily — Shakespeare
2. : fastidious , cultivated , highbred
she spoke in a painfully refined accent
sensitive, refined face
belief that the function of music is to cause a refined sort of sensuous pleasure — Susanne K. Langer
3. : marked by subtlety of discrimination or precision of method or technique : carried to a fine point : precise , exact
drawn out with that refined analysis of terms which I always find a waste of time — H.J.Laski
men learned the necessity of exact measurement and refined calculations — J.H.Randall
• re·fined·ly -n(ə̇)dlē adverb
• re·fined·ness -nə̇dnə̇s, -n(d)nə̇s noun -es