Definition for Refinement:

• a highly developed state of perfection; having a flawless or impeccable quality; " they performed with great polish"; " I admired the exquisite refinement of his prose"; " almost an inspiration which gives to all work that finish which is almost art"-- Joseph Conrad

Synonyms for Refinement:

• n.

  •
  • draining,
  • clarification,
  • cleaning.
  •
  • urbanity,
  • gentleness,
  • savoir-faire.
  •
  • quality.
  •amenity (noun)
  • delightfulness,
  • etiquette,
  • suavity.
  •beauty (noun)
  • loveliness,
  • gorgeousness,
  • pleasingness,
  • prettiness,
  • Splendidness,
  • Sightliness,
  • comeliness,
  • shapeliness,
  • superbness,
  • radiance,
  • exquisiteness,
  • glamour,
  • charm,
  • gracefulness,
  • handsomeness,
  • resplendence,
  • attractiveness,
  • picturesqueness,
  • Bonniness,
  • fairness,
  • splendor.
  •change (noun)
  • transubstantiation,
  • transfiguration.
  •changes (noun)
  • reform,
  • evolution.
  •cleansing (noun)
  • Filtering,
  • distillation,
  • processing.
  •courtesy (noun)
  • graciousness,
  • courtliness,
  • politesse,
  • Mannerliness.
  •cultivation, civilization (noun)
  • knowledge,
  • finesse,
  • dignity,
  • delicacy,
  • civility,
  • subtlety,
  • fine point,
  • fastidiousness,
  • fineness,
  • precision,
  • good manners.
  •culture (noun)
  • learning.
  •education (noun)
  • pedagogy.
  •elegance (noun)
  • stylishness,
  • decorousness,
  • neatness.
  •good manners (noun)
  • propriety.
  •improvement (noun)
  • correction,
  • embellishment,
  • Garnishment,
  • furtherance,
  • renovation,
  • progression,
  • advancement,
  • improvement,
  • enrichment,
  • betterment,
  • gain,
  • enhancement.
  •nicety (noun)
  • fine distinction,
  • exactness,
  • meticulousness.
  •propriety (noun)
  • suitability,
  • seemliness,
  • decorum,
  • appropriateness,
  • fittingness,
  • correctness.
  •simplicity (noun)
  • crystallinity,
  • plainness,
  • artlessness,
  • terseness,
  • innocence,
  • bareness,
  • singleness,
  • spareness,
  • austerity,
  • candor,
  • unsophistication,
  • baldness,
  • clarity,
  • directness,
  • chastity.
  •taste (noun)
  • Purism,
  • class.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • artsy-fartsy,
  • selectivity,
  • courtesy,
  • arty,
  • insular,
  • selectiveness,
  • artsy,
  • good breeding.
  •
  • sophisticated.
  •
  • cosmopolitan,
  • artistic,
  • barbarian.
  •Other relevant words:
  • gossameriness,
  • infusion,
  • Perspicacy,
  • nurture,
  • exactitude,
  • screening,
  • ending,
  • chasteness,
  • development,
  • filtration,
  • savvy,
  • finale,
  • wit,
  • textualism,
  • amenity,
  • cuteness,
  • expansion,
  • revision,
  • elevation,
  • fidelity,
  • down,
  • cunning,
  • spell,
  • color,
  • greatly,
  • socialization,
  • palate,
  • narrow margin,
  • fluff,
  • rigorousness,
  • Finicalness,
  • chasten,
  • right,
  • criticalness,
  • clearness,
  • Fashionableness,
  • downiness,
  • rigour,
  • second thoughts,
  • discipline,
  • stripping,
  • desirability,
  • beautiful,
  • fluffiness,
  • unaffectedness,
  • percolation,
  • grandeur,
  • gusto,
  • extract,
  • differentiation,
  • detail,
  • reduce,
  • courtly,
  • disentanglement,
  • Circumstantiality,
  • sublimation,
  • spook,
  • background,
  • discretion,
  • silkiness,
  • alter,
  • honorably,
  • enchantment,
  • decoction,
  • intelligence,
  • flair,
  • distillate,
  • emend,
  • capacity,
  • treatment,
  • tactfulness,
  • extraction,
  • sifting,
  • coating,
  • separation,
  • nobly,
  • elixir,
  • abstraction,
  • nuances,
  • genteelness,
  • destructive distillation,
  • loftily,
  • gust,
  • feel,
  • atone,
  • ghost,
  • progress,
  • reformation,
  • glossiness,
  • bearing,
  • awareness,
  • conscientiousness,
  • softness,
  • considerate,
  • reproduction,
  • last,
  • acuteness,
  • simplification,
  • insight,
  • strictness,
  • rare,
  • repair,
  • estimation,
  • involution,
  • indulgence,
  • perception,
  • flawlessness,
  • fluency,
  • Disinfect,
  • skinniness,
  • exactingness,
  • Gracility,
  • leaching,
  • unsnarling,
  • fine,
  • amend,
  • absoluteness,
  • punctiliousness,
  • respectability,
  • courageously,
  • allure,
  • esprit,
  • gracious,
  • scrupulousness,
  • fascination,
  • accuracy,
  • fostering,
  • destination,
  • good form,
  • purify,
  • shadow,
  • Precisianism,
  • tad,
  • removal,
  • clarifying,
  • leanness,
  • ritziness,
  • sieving,
  • fosterage,
  • dainty,
  • thinness,
  • shade,
  • finely,
  • faultlessness,
  • fussiness,
  • finis,
  • exaltation,
  • elegant,
  • perspicuity,
  • wraith,
  • eminent,
  • edification,
  • pizazz,
  • loftiness,
  • purifying,
  • grandly,
  • restoration,
  • lucidity,
  • Kultur,
  • hairline,
  • straining,
  • superior,
  • preciseness,
  • good judgment,
  • essence,
  • connoisseurship,
  • upbringing,
  • Elegancy,
  • burnish,
  • Gentlemanliness,
  • narrowing,
  • Nobleness,
  • diagnosis,
  • cachet,
  • diplomacy,
  • close,
  • elaborateness,
  • panache,
  • bells and whistles,
  • gingerbread,
  • excellence,
  • brighten,
  • restraint,
  • ceremoniously,
  • understanding,
  • justly,
  • refining,
  • heroically,
  • meaning,
  • naturalness,
  • importance,
  • rearing,
  • delicate,
  • correct,
  • peach fuzz,
  • sagacity,
  • bettering,
  • oxidation,
  • appreciation,
  • Bolting,
  • pubescence,
  • prestige,
  • punish,
  • Finicality,
  • satin,
  • spectre,
  • enculturation,
  • magic,
  • ameliorate,
  • judgment,
  • civilisation,
  • modesty,
  • concentrate,
  • genteel,
  • critique,
  • Riddling,
  • majestically,
  • differentia,
  • subtraction,
  • facts of life,
  • Edulcoration,
  • sorcery,
  • straightforwardness,
  • keenness,
  • literalness,
  • felicity,
  • decoration,
  • flow,
  • regally,
  • handsome,
  • sense,
  • purging,
  • gratification,
  • shadiness,
  • defecation,
  • fuzz,
  • lofty,
  • pellucidity,
  • tincture,
  • appreciativeness,
  • worthily,
  • velvet,
  • Diorism,
  • nice distinction,
  • chastise,
  • excellent,
  • magnificently,
  • Sublation,
  • dash,
  • luxury,
  • enlargement,
  • literalism,
  • aristocratically,
  • intellect,
  • complexity,
  • daintiness,
  • quintessence,
  • rigor,
  • presence,
  • merit,
  • working out,
  • Concinnity,
  • conclusion,
  • airy,
  • amelioration,
  • perfection,
  • redeem,
  • minuteness,
  • Colature,
  • punctuality,
  • distill,
  • criticality,
  • felicitousness,
  • knowledgeability,
  • comprehension,
  • pleasure,
  • spirit,
  • smoothness,
  • discernment,
  • advance,
  • streamlining,
  • concentration,
  • garnish,
  • expiate,
  • SABE,
  • ladylike,
  • accomplishment,
  • poise,
  • ladylikeness,
  • tone,
  • intricacy,
  • rectify,
  • nous,
  • magnetism,
  • perspicacity,
  • uncluttering,
  • improve,
  • rightness,
  • deduction,
  • decency,
  • procreation,
  • splendidly,
  • amplification,
  • Lixiviation,
  • acculturation,
  • Cosmopolitanism,
  • unscrambling,
  • melioration,
  • royally,
  • mend,
  • finishing,
  • fix,
  • spiritualization,
  • maturation,
  • bravely,
  • acquired taste,
  • sedateness,
  • taking away,
  • abrasion,
  • subduction,
  • Filminess,
  • modest,
  • Scrupulosity,
  • mother wit,
  • finickiness,
  • sanctify,
  • sensitivity,
  • erosion,
  • perceptiveness,
  • silk,
  • protocol,
  • justness,
  • refined palate,
  • fashion,
  • judgement,
  • raising,
  • judiciousness,
  • specter,
  • chic,
  • Delicateness,
  • particularity,
  • sensibility,
  • penetration,
  • limpidity,
  • exalted,
  • fuzziness,
  • suppleness,
  • gumption,
  • ethereal,
  • ablation,
  • costly,
  • cleansing,
  • faithfulness,
  • bringing up,
  • urbaneness,
  • recovery,
  • adornment,
  • distinguished,
  • Elutriation,
  • gloss,
  • magnanimously,
  • ripening,
  • rigidness,
  • goal,
  • generously,
  • polite,
  • stopping point,
  • elution,
  • parts,
  • essentialization,
  • ease,
  • beautification,
  • minutia,
  • literality,
  • tint,
  • rigidity,
  • winnowing,
  • appeal,
  • margin,
  • seasoning,
  • choiceness.

Paraphrases for Refinement:

• Equivalence

  • Proper noun, singular
    refining.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    refining.

• Forward Entailment

  • Adjective
    improvements.
  • Proper noun, singular
    improvement.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    refined, improved.
  • Proper noun, singular
    refinery, Refineries, improved.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    revision, elaboration, readjustment, streamlining, refresher, retrofitting, refinery, amendment, realignment.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    improvement, enhancement.
  • Proper noun, singular
    enhancement, improvements.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    sophistication, fine-tuning, improvement, Perfecting, adjustment, optimization, finalization, enhancement, finalisation, tuning, improvements, completion, modification.
  • Verb, non-3rd person singular present
    enhancement.

Antonyms for Refinement:

• n.

  • cleansing
    bad manners, rudeness, dirtying, corruption, pollution, crudeness.
  • cultivation, civilization
    tactlessness, roughness, impoliteness, discourtesy, inelegance, ignorance.
  • Other antonyms:
    flagging, kitsch, brutality, descent, boorishness, unsophistication, degeneration, philistinism, drawback, illiteracy, collapse, gracelessness, flamboyance, setback, decrease, decline, reduction, worsening, rusticity, declension, lapse, grossness, decadence, impairment, detriment, vulgarity, Clownishness, garishness, grotesqueness, tawdriness, barbarism, slowing, shortcoming, deterioration, Languishment, crash, stumbling block, ebbing, savagery, hindrance, breakdown, downgrade, glitz, decay, parochialism, lessening, weakening, grotesquerie, glitch, disablement, gaudiness, failing, sinking, provincialism, impediment, flashiness.

Homophones for Refinement:

• revenant, repaint, refined, repand, ribband, riband, refund, ribbonwood, ripened, rebound, repayment, repoint, rebind, robin hood, rabbinate, rawboned, repent.

Hyponym for Refinement:

• n.

  • state
    perfection, flawlessness, ne plus ultra.