Word Meanings - REFINEMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The act of refining, or the state of being refined; as, the refinement or metals; refinement of ideas. The more bodies are of kin to spirit in subtilty and refinement, the more diffusive are they. Norris. From the civil war to this time, I doubt

Additional info about word: REFINEMENT

1. The act of refining, or the state of being refined; as, the refinement or metals; refinement of ideas. The more bodies are of kin to spirit in subtilty and refinement, the more diffusive are they. Norris. From the civil war to this time, I doubt whether the corruptions in our language have not equaled its refinements. Swift. 2. That which is refined, elaborated, or polished to excess; an affected subtilty; as, refinements of logic. "The refinements of irregular cunning." Rogers. Syn. -- Purification; polish; politeness; gentility; elegance; cultivation; civilization.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of REFINEMENT)

• Casuistry
• Sophistry
• Jesuitry
• fallacy
• refinement
• quibble
• strawsplitting
• Civilization
• Amelioration
• culture
• cultivation
• humanization
• Delicacy
• Nicety
• dainty
• mor
• sel
• tact
• softness
• luxury
• modesty
• scruple
• sensitiveness
• fragility
• Elegance
• Beauty
• grace
• symmetry
• gracefulness
• taste
• Elevation
• Height
• rise
• raising
• altitude
• loftiness
• tallness
• improvement
• amelioration
• superiority
• eminence

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of REFINEMENT)

• Reason
• argue
• enunciate
• investigate
• discuss

Related words: (words related to REFINEMENT)

• REASONING
  1. The act or process of adducing a reason or reasons; manner of presenting one's reasons. 2. That which is offered in argument; proofs or reasons when arranged and developed; course of argument. His reasoning was sufficiently profound. Macaulay.
• EMINENCE
  1. That which is eminent or lofty; a high ground or place; a height. Without either eminences or cavities. Dryden. The temple of honor ought to be seated on an eminence. Burke. 2. An elevated condition among men; a place or station above men in
• RAISE
  To create or constitute; as, to raise a use that is, to create it. Burrill. To raise a blockade , to remove or break up a blockade, either by withdrawing the ships or forces employed in enforcing it, or by driving them away or dispersing them.
• GRACE
  The divine favor toward man; the mercy of God, as distinguished from His justice; also, any benefits His mercy imparts; divine love or pardon; a state of acceptance with God; enjoyment of the divine favor. And if by grace, then is it no more of
• SCRUPLE
  twenty-fourth part of an ounce, a scruple, uneasiness, doubt, dim. of scrupus a rough or sharp stone, anxiety, uneasiness; perh. akin to 1. A weight of twenty grains; the third part of a dram. 2. Hence, a very small quantity; a particle. I will
• RAISED
  1. Lifted up; showing above the surroundings; as, raised or embossed metal work. 2. Leavened; made with leaven, or yeast; -- used of bread, cake, etc., as distinguished from that made with cream of tartar, soda, etc. See Raise, v. t., 4. Raised
• GRACEFUL
  Displaying grace or beauty in form or action; elegant; easy; agreeable in appearance; as, a graceful walk, deportment, speaker, air, act, speech. High o'er the rest in arms the graceful Turnus rode. Dryden. -- Grace"ful*ly, adv. Grace"ful*ness, n.
• ARGUE
  1. To invent and offer reasons to support or overthrow a proposition, opinion, or measure; to use arguments; to reason. I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will. Milton. 2. To contend in argument; to dispute; to reason; -- followed by with; as,
• REASONLESS
  1. Destitute of reason; as, a reasonless man or mind. Shak. 2. Void of reason; not warranted or supported by reason; unreasonable. This proffer is absurd and reasonless. Shak.
• REASONABLY
  1. In a reasonable manner. 2. Moderately; tolerably. "Reasonably perfect in the language." Holder.
• NICETY
  1. The quality or state of being nice (in any of the senses of that word.). The miller smiled of her nicety. Chaucer. 2. Delicacy or exactness of perception; minuteness of observation or of discrimination; precision. 3. A delicate expression, act,
• RAIS
  See REIS
• GRACELESS
  1. Wanting in grace or excellence; departed from, or deprived of, divine grace; hence, depraved; corrupt. "In a graceless age." Milton. 2. Unfortunate. Cf. Grace, n., 4. Chaucer. -- Grace"less*ly, adv. -- Grace"less-ness, n.
• FRAGILITY
  1. The condition or quality of being fragile; brittleness; frangibility. Bacon. 2. Weakness; feebleness. An appearance of delicacy, and even of fragility, is almost essential to it . Burke. 3. Liability to error and sin; frailty. The fragility
• MODESTY
  1. The quality or state of being modest; that lowly temper which accompanies a moderate estimate of one's own worth and importance; absence of self-assertion, arrogance, and presumption; humility respecting one's own merit. 2. Natural delicacy
• SOFTNESS
  The quality or state of being soft; -- opposed to Ant: hardness, and used in the various specific senses of the adjective.
• AMELIORATION
  The act of ameliorating, or the state of being ameliorated; making or becoming better; improvement; melioration. "Amelioration of human affairs." J. S. Mill.
• LOFTINESS
  The state or quality of being lofty.
• CASUISTRY
  1. The science or doctrine of dealing with cases of conscience, of resolving questions of right or wrong in conduct, or determining the lawfulness or unlawfulness of what a man may do by rules and principles drawn from the Scriptures, from the
• CULTURE FEATURES
  The artificial features of a district as distinguished from the natural.
• SELF-CULTURE
  Culture, training, or education of one's self by one's own efforts.
• DENUNCIATE
  To denounce; to condemn publicly or solemnly. To denunciate this new work. Burke.
• APPRAISER
  One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates.
• LIVRAISON
  A part of a book or literary composition printed and delivered by itself; a number; a part.
• SILVICULTURE
  See SYLVICULTURE
• HEBRAIST
  One versed in the Hebrew language and learning.
• MISRAISE
  To raise or exite unreasonable. "Misraised fury." Bp. Hall.
• PRAISEWORTHINESS
  The quality or state of being praiseworthy.
• ASYMMETRY
  Incommensurability. Barrow. (more info) 1. Want of symmetry, or proportion between the parts of a thing, esp. want of bilateral symmetry.
• REDARGUE
  To disprove; to refute; toconfute; to reprove; to convict. How shall I . . . suffer that God should redargue me at doomsday, and the angels reproach my lukewarmness Jer. Taylor. Now this objection to the immediate cognition of external objects has,
• KARAISM
  Doctrines of the Karaites.
• UNCIVILIZATION
  The state of being uncivilized; savagery or barbarism.