Refined
Crossword Clue & Answers

25 November 2021
Last seen in: Evening Standard Quick Crossword

We found 20 answers for the crossword clue 'Refined', the most recent of which was seen in the Evening Standard Quick Crossword.

This clue looks to be a standard clue as in it's a NON-CRYPTIC crossword based on the publications in which we have recently seen it.

We have given Refined a popularity rating of 'Very Common' because it has featured in a numerous crossword publications and has multiple answers.

As well as being a clue we've also seen Refined as an answer itself some 58 times.

Refined is a single word clue made up of 7 letters.

We most recently saw this clue in 'Evening Standard Quick Crossword' on Thursday, 11 November 2021 with the answer being GENTEEL, but the most popular answer for this clue is ELEGANT.

We've seen this clue in the following publications:

• Evening Standard Quick Crossword - 11 Nov 2021
• Evening Standard Quick Crossword - 2 Nov 2021
• Irish Independent - Simple - 11 Oct 2021
• Evening Standard Easy Crossword - 6 Oct 2021
• Evening Standard Quick Crossword - 9 Sep 2021
• Irish Independent - Simple - 14 Jul 2021
• Evening Standard Quick Crossword - 13 Jul 2021
• Evening Standard Quick Crossword - 1 Apr 2021
• Irish Independent - Simple - 30 Jan 2021
• Evening Standard Easy Crossword - 19 Jan 2021

Definitions and usage

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• Suggesting taste, ease, and wealth
• (used of persons and their behavior) cultivated and genteel; "she was delicate and refined and unused to hardship"; "refined people with refined taste"
• Freed from impurities by processing; "refined sugar"; "refined oil"; "to gild refined gold"- Shakespeare
• Free from what is tawdry or unbecoming; "a neat style"; "a neat set of rules"; "she hated to have her neat plans upset"
• 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"

Anagrams

We found 1 anagrams for the word 'Refined'.

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Crossword Answers

4 Letters

NEAT
Very good; "he did a bully job"; "a neat sports car"; "had a great time at the party"; "you look simply smashing"

PURE
(of color) being chromatically pure; not diluted with white or grey or black

5 Letters

HONED

6 Letters

POLITE
Marked by refinement in taste and manners; "cultivated speech"; "cultured Bostonians"; "cultured tastes"; "a genteel old lady"; "polite society"

SUBTLE
Able to make fine distinctions; "a subtle mind"

SVELTE
Being of delicate or slender build; "she was slender as a willow shoot is slender"- Frank Norris; "a slim girl with straight blonde hair"; "watched her slight figure cross the street"

URBANE
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"

7 Letters

ELEGANT
Displaying effortless beauty and simplicity in movement or execution; "an elegant dancer"; "an elegant mathematical solution -- simple and precise"

GENTEEL
Marked by refinement in taste and manners; "cultivated speech"; "cultured Bostonians"; "cultured tastes"; "a genteel old lady"; "polite society"

SMELTED

8 Letters

CULTURED
Marked by refinement in taste and manners; "cultivated speech"; "cultured Bostonians"; "cultured tastes"; "a genteel old lady"; "polite society"

GRACEFUL
Characterized by beauty of movement, style, form, or execution

POLISHED
(of grains especially rice) having the husk or outer layers removed; "polished rice"

RAREFIED
Of high moral or intellectual value; elevated in nature or style; "an exalted ideal"; "argue in terms of high-flown ideals"- Oliver Franks; "a noble and lofty concept"; "a grand purpose"

TASTEFUL
Having or showing or conforming to good taste

9 Letters

CLARIFIED

PROCESSED
Subjected to a special process or treatment; "prepared ergot"; "processed cheeses are easy to spread"

10 Letters

CULTIVATED
Marked by refinement in taste and manners; "cultivated speech"; "cultured Bostonians"; "cultured tastes"; "a genteel old lady"; "polite society"

FASTIDIOUS
Having complicated nutritional requirements; especially growing only in special artificial cultures; "fastidious microorganisms"; "certain highly specialized xerophytes are extremely exacting in their requirements"

13 Letters

SOPHISTICATED
Ahead in development; complex or intricate; "advanced technology"; "a sophisticated electronic control system"