verb
- Make more complex, intricate, or richer.
- usage: "refine a design or pattern"
- synonyms: complicate, refine, rarify, elaborate
adjective
- Having low density.
- usage: "rare gasses"; "lightheaded from the rarefied mountain air"
- Of high moral or intellectual value; elevated in nature or style.
- usage: "an exalted ideal"; "argue in terms of high-flown ideals- Oliver Franks; "a noble and lofty concept"; "a grand purpose"
- synonyms: exalted, elevated, sublime, grand, high-flown, high-minded, lofty, rarefied, idealistic, noble-minded
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