how to pronounce refined

/ɹəˈfaɪnd/

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refined is pronounced in two syllables

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An example use of refined in a speech by a native speaker of american english:

“… as elegant and refined and cool as gwen …”

meanings of refined

adjective:

Elevated and polished.
Free of dross or alloy.
Highly-processed and pure.
Cultured, freed from vulgarity.
Purified, reduced in or freed from impurities.
Elegant, sometimes affected, prissy, or bloodless.
Subtle, scrupulous, carefully thought out.
Developed, improved.
Dealing in a refined product such as sugar or petroleum.
Morally pure.
Precise, freed from imprecision.
Sagacious, sometimes oversubtle or feigning sagacity.

verb:

Simple past tense and past participle of refine.

noun:

The refined form of a commodity, as opposed to its raw or generic form.

refined frequency in english - C1 level of CEFR

the word refined occurs in english on average 6.4 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics refined can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that refined can be often used in the following areas:

1) communication, information, and media;