What is the meaning of refined?

verb

• Improve or perfect by pruning or polishing.
  • usage: "refine one's style of writing"
  • synonyms: polish, refine, fine-tune, down
• Make more complex, intricate, or richer.
  • usage: "refine a design or pattern"
  • synonyms: complicate, refine, rarify, elaborate
• Treat or prepare so as to put in a usable condition.
  • usage: "refine paper stock"; "refine pig iron"; "refine oil"
  • synonyms: refine
• Reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; separate from extraneous matter or cleanse from impurities.
  • usage: "refine sugar"
  • synonyms: refine, rectify
• Attenuate or reduce in vigor, strength, or validity by polishing or purifying.
  • usage: "many valuable nutrients are refined out of the foods in our modern diet"
  • synonyms: refine
• Make more precise or increase the discriminatory powers of.
  • usage: "refine a method of analysis"; "refine the constant in the equation"
  • synonyms: refine

adjective

• Used of persons and their behavior. ( cultivated and genteel)
  • usage: "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
  • synonyms: processed
• Showing a high degree of refinement and the assurance that comes from wide social experience.
  • usage: "his polished manner"; "maintained an urbane tone in his letters"
  • synonyms: polished, svelte, urbane
• Suggesting taste, ease, and wealth.
  • synonyms: elegant, graceful
• Free from what is tawdry or unbecoming.
  • usage: "a neat style"; "a neat set of rules"; "she hated to have her neat plans upset"
  • synonyms: neat, tasteful