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Polished

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Made shiny and smooth by or as if by rubbing or chemical action.

adj. Naturally shiny and smooth.

adj. Having the husk or outer layers removed. Used of grains of rice.

adj. Refined; cultured: polished manners.

adj. Having no imperfections or errors; flawless: gave a polished presentation to the board.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. Made smooth or shiny by polishing.

adj. refined, elegant

v. Simple past tense and past participle of polish.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Made smooth and glossy, as by friction; hence, highly finished; refined; polite

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Made smooth by polishing.

Having naturally a smooth, lustrous surface, like that produced by polishing; specifically, in entomology smooth and shining, but without metallic luster.

Brought by training or elaboration to a condition void of roughness, irregularity, imperfections, or inelegances; carefully elaborated; especially, elegant; refined; polite.

Purified; absolved.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. (of grains especially rice) having the husk or outer layers removed

adj. (of lumber or stone) to trim and smooth

adj. showing a high degree of refinement and the assurance that comes from wide social experience

adj. perfected or made shiny and smooth

Word Usage

"One of the great misfortunes, as also one of the great follies, of mankind, is that in all countries which we call polished, except, perhaps, China, priests concern themselves with what belongs only to philosophers."

Equivalent

processed finished sophisticated bright shining lustrous burnished shiny

Cross Reference

refined elegant

Form

perpolished unpolished polishedly impolished well-polished polishedness

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

refined polite

Verb Stem

polish

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

abolished demolished