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refined [a]

1)	used of persons and their behavior; cultivated and genteel; "she was delicate and refined and unused to hardship"; "refined people with refined taste"

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civilised civilised couth dainty debonair delicate gentlemanlike ladylike elegant fastidious gracious overrefined well-bred polished unrefined

2)	freed from impurities by processing; "refined sugar"; "refined oil"; "to gild refined gold"- Shakespeare

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processed

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crude

3)	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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polished svelte urbane

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sophisticated

made pure

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purified sublimate

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pure

5)	suggesting taste, ease, and wealth

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elegant graceful

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gracious

6)	free from what is tawdry or unbecoming; "a neat style"; "a neat set of rules"; "she hated to have her neat plans upset"

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neat tasteful

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elegant

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing: (http://www.foldoc.org/, Editor Denis Howe)

1. "Research on Knowledge-Based Software Environments at Kestrel Institute", D.R. Smith et al, IEEE Trans Soft Eng, SE-11(11) (1985). E-mail: maria@kestrel.edu.

2. Cordell Green et al, Stanford U. Uses logic to specify and evolve programs. [same as 1?] Reasoning Systems, Inc. E-mail: help@reasoning.com.

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