Meaning of POLISHED
| Pronunciation: | | p'âlisht
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- [adj] (of lumber or stone) to trim and smooth
- [adj] perfected or made shiny and smooth; "his polished prose"; "in a freshly ironed dress and polished shoes"; "freshly polished silver"
- [adj] (of grains especially rice) having the husk or outer layers removed; "polished rice"
- [adj] 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"
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| | Synonyms: | | bright, burnished, dressed, finished, lustrous, milled, processed, refined, shining, shiny, sophisticated, svelte, urbane |
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| | Definition: | | \Pol"ished\, a.
Made smooth and glossy, as by friction; hence, highly
finished; refined; polite; as, polished plate; polished
manners; polished verse.
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| | Related Terms: | | accomplished, adept, advanced, ameliorated, archetypical, Attic, beautified, bettered, buffed, burnished, chaste, Ciceronian, civilized, classic, clear, complete, consummate, converted, courtly, cultivated, cultured, dainty, debonair, delicate, developed, direct, discriminating, distingue, easy, educated, elegant, embellished, enhanced, enriched, excellent, exemplary, exhaustive, expert, fastidious, faultless, fine, finished, flawless, fully developed, fully realized, furbished, genteel, gentle, gentlemanlike, gentlemanly, gifted, glace, glassy, glazed, gleaming, glistening, glossy, graceful, gracile, gracious, highbred, impeccable, improved, lacquered, ladylike, limpid, lucid, lustrous, masterful, masterly, mature, matured, model, natural, neat, nice, outstanding, pellucid, perfect, perfected, perspicuous, plain, polite, proficient, pure, quintessential, refined, reformed, restrained, ripe, ripened, round, rubbed, satiny, sheeny, shellacked, shined, shining, shiny, silken, silky, simple, sleek, slick, smarmy, soignee, sophisticated, straightforward, subtle, superb, superior, superlative, tasteful, terse, thorough, transfigured, transformed, trim, unaffected, unlabored, urbane, varnished, velvety, virtuoso, well-bred, well-brought-up, well-mannered |
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