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English Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. polished

    Fine (Latin finis, end) denotes that which has been brought to a full end, finished. From this root-sense many derived meanings branch out, causing words quite remote from each other to be alike synonyms of fine. That which is truly finished, brought to an ideal end, is excellent of its kind, and beautiful, if a thing that admits of beauty; as, a fine house, fine trees, a fine woman, a fine morning; if a thing that admits of the removal of impurities, it is not finished till these are removed, and hence fine signifies clarified, clear, pure, refined; as, fine gold. That which is finished is apt to be polished, smooth to the touch, minutely exact in outline; hence fine comes to be a synonym for all words like dainty, delicate, exquisite; as, fine manners, a fine touch, fine perceptions. As that which is delicate is apt to be small, by an easy extension of meaning fine becomes a synonym for slender, slight, minute, comminuted; as, a fine thread, fine sand; or for filmy, tenuous, thin; as, a fine lace, fine wire; and as a thin edge is keen, sharp, fine becomes also a synonym for these words; as, a fine point, a fine edge. Compare BEAUTIFUL; MINUTE.

    Synonyms:
    beautiful, clarified, clear, comminuted, dainty, delicate, elegant, excellent, exquisite, fine, gauzy, handsome, keen, minute, nice, pure, refined, sensitive, sharp, slender, slight, small, smooth, splendid, subtile, subtle, tenuous, thin

    Antonyms:
    big, blunt, clumsy, coarse, great, heavy, huge, immense, large, rude, stout, thick

Princeton's WordNet3.0 / 1 vote

  1. polishedadjective

    perfected or made shiny and smooth

    "his polished prose"; "in a freshly ironed dress and polished shoes"; "freshly polished silver"

    Synonyms:
    urbane, milled, dressed, svelte, refined

    Antonyms:
    unpolished, unprocessed, naif, raw, naive, unburnished, unfinished, rough

  2. polished, refined, svelte, urbaneadjective

    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"

    Synonyms:
    urbane, lissome, neat, lithesome, sylphlike, refined, lissom, slender, processed, slight, svelte, tasteful, slim, graceful, elegant, supple, dressed, milled, lithe

    Antonyms:
    unpolished, rough, unfinished, naif, unburnished, raw, unprocessed, naive

  3. milled, polishedadjective

    (of grains especially rice) having the husk or outer layers removed

    "polished rice"

    Synonyms:
    urbane, milled, dressed, refined, svelte

    Antonyms:
    rough, unpolished, raw, unburnished, naive, naif, unprocessed, unfinished

  4. dressed, polishedadjective

    (of lumber or stone) to trim and smooth

    Synonyms:
    dolled up, urbane, garmented, appareled, dressed, attired, spruced up, dressed to kill(p), garbed, togged up, dressed-up, spiffed up, refined, habilimented, dressed(p), milled, svelte, robed, dressed to the nines(p)

    Antonyms:
    naive, rough, unburnished, unprocessed, unfinished, raw, unpolished, naif

Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. polishedadjective

    Synonyms:
    burnished, made bright or glossy

  2. polishedadjective

    Synonyms:
    refined, accomplished, cultivated, elegant, POLITE

  3. polishedadjective

    Synonyms:
    classic, classical, attic

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. polishedadjective

    Synonyms:
    burnished, glistening, bright, courtly, elegant refined

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "polished":

    pulido, polite, brushed, refined

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How to use polished in a sentence?

  1. Lord Byron, Don Juan:

    Society is now one polished horde, --- Formed of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored.

  2. Edmund Burke:

    Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.

  3. Chinese Proverb:

    The gem cannot be polished without friction, not a man perfected without trials.

  4. Loren Weisman:

    Are they as clean as they claim? Or are they only presenting a very neat and falsely polished front?

  5. Robert Green Ingersoll:

    Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.


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