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🎩 Elegant or cultured 🎯 Made precise 🍬 Made pure
refined

refined

1 3.5
Pure because processing removes unwanted parts
  • adjective
  • /rɪˈfaɪnd/
  • Specialized
translation icon : refinado
  • Either way, it's refined carbohydrate in your sugar, get the insulin down and diabetes is when your pancreas can't keep up.
  • refined food
  • more refined

It's got more protein, less refined starch.

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Examples

  • Like why is refined white sugar problematic?

  • The refined oil is used in cooking because it has a lighter flavor.

  • In fact, one is slightly more refined than the other.

  • So when it's that refined, Israel, they are so good at what they do.

  • It's like when a a piece of coal feels all this pressure for so many years, it becomes this beautiful refined diamond.

  • I would assume that this is refined product that they're getting.

  • Get the insulin down any way you can and the best way get rid of the refined carbohydrate and sugar, that's where you start.

    Andrew Huberman

  • We had little sugar, we had no refined starch, we had less salt, and we did not drink milk after we were weaned.

  • They use highly processed oils such as Expressway pressed canola oil and highly refined coconut oil.

    Dr. Josh Axe

  • WHOLE GRAINS HAVE PROBLEMS, NUTRITIONAL PROBLEMS, THAT THE REFINED GRAINS DON'T, SO YOU CAN'T WIN EITHER WAY.

    The Perfect Human Diet (2012)

Synonyms

pure
vsrefined
390 1.0

Has nothing mixed with it

is produced by processing to remove unwanted elements and make it clean
unadulterated
vsrefined
6 6.9

Complete and not mixed with anything, used to show strong feeling

is made clean by processing rather than being only a stated intensity
undiluted
vsrefined
5 4.6

Pure and not made weaker by adding water or another liquid

is achieved by removing unwanted parts through processing rather than avoiding addition

Antonyms

unrefined
3 4.4

In its natural raw state without processing

impure
2 4.2

Containing other unwanted substances so it is not clean

Compounds

refined sugar
4 1.8

White sugar made from sugar cane or beet and used to sweeten food and drinks

refined palate
1 7.1

A strong ability to notice and enjoy fine flavors in food and drink

How Pure

pure
390 1.0
refined
  • Specialized
1 3.5
unrefined
3 4.4
crude
43 4.6

Surface Forms

refined positive

Morphology

refined = refine (transparent) = refine + ed

Direct adjectival formation from the verb 'refine' meaning 'made pure', so the meaning is straightforwardly derived for learners.

Etymology

Refined comes from old words built from re- 'again' and fine 'pure' or 'good', and it originally meant to make something pure by removing unwanted parts. So a refined substance, like sugar or oil, is something that has been cleaned and made pure.