English-Spanish translations for refined

• elegante
• sofisticado
  Esta propuesta constituye un paso hacia un planeamiento más sofisticado y refinado de la supervisión y la gestión de riesgos. This proposal represents a move to an altogether more sophisticated and refined approach to supervision and risk management.

Definition of refined

• Precise, freed from imprecision, ''particularly:''
• Cultured, freed from vulgarity, ''particularly:''
• Purified, reduced in or freed from impurities, ''particularly:''
• Dealing in a refined product such as sugar or petroleum
• The refined form of a commodity, as opposed to its raw or generic form

Examples

• The raw petroleum was refined into kerosene.
• The argument, while not persuasive, is quite refined.
• The curriculum has been carefully refined to meet the needs of foreign students.
• In the British Isles, Oxbridge is considered refined; Geordie somewhat less so.
• Don Draper was a man of refined tastes.
• Under current guidelines, refined sugar must be at least five times purer than its raw counterpart.
• The Temple at Jerusalem preferred Tyrian shekels, since even with Baals portrait they bore highly refined silver.
• Were still purchasing copper ore, but the market for refined is weaker.

Related words

• refine
• refinery
• refiner
• biorefinery
• refinement
• unrefined
• hydrorefine
• refined petrol
• oil refinery