Polished \Pol"ished\, a.
Made smooth and glossy, as by friction; hence, highly
finished; refined; polite; as, polished plate; polished
manners; polished verse.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Polish \Pol"ish\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Polished; p. pr. & vb.
n. Polishing.] [F. polir, L. polire. Cf. Polite, -ish]
1. To make smooth and glossy, usually by friction; to
burnish; to overspread with luster; as, to polish glass,
marble, metals, etc.
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2. Hence, to refine; to wear off the rudeness, coarseness, or
rusticity of; to make elegant and polite; as, to polish
life or manners. --Milton.
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To polish off, to finish completely, as an adversary.
[Slang] --W. H. Russell.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
polished
adj 1: perfected or made shiny and smooth; "his polished prose";
"in a freshly ironed dress and polished shoes";
"freshly polished silver" [ant: unpolished]
2: showing a high degree of refinement and the assurance that
comes from wide social experience; "his polished manner";
"maintained an urbane tone in his letters" [syn: refined,
svelte, urbane]
3: (of grains especially rice) having the husk or outer layers
removed; "polished rice" [syn: milled]
4: (of lumber or stone) to trim and smooth [syn: dressed]
WordNet (r) 2.0
127 Moby Thesaurus words for "polished":
Attic, Ciceronian, accomplished, adept, advanced, ameliorated,
archetypical, beautified, bettered, buffed, burnished, chaste,
civilized, classic, clear, complete, consummate, converted,
courtly, cultivated, cultured, dainty, debonair, delicate,
developed, direct, discriminating, distingue, easy, educated,
elegant, embellished, enhanced, enriched, excellent, exemplary,
exhaustive, expert, fastidious, faultless, fine, finished,
flawless, fully developed, fully realized, furbished, genteel,
gentle, gentlemanlike, gentlemanly, gifted, glace, glassy, glazed,
gleaming, glistening, glossy, graceful, gracile, gracious,
highbred, impeccable, improved, lacquered, ladylike, limpid, lucid,
lustrous, masterful, masterly, mature, matured, model, natural,
neat, nice, outstanding, pellucid, perfect, perfected, perspicuous,
plain, polite, proficient, pure, quintessential, refined, reformed,
restrained, ripe, ripened, round, rubbed, satiny, sheeny,
shellacked, shined, shining, shiny, silken, silky, simple, sleek,
slick, smarmy, soignee, sophisticated, straightforward, subtle,
superb, superior, superlative, tasteful, terse, thorough,
transfigured, transformed, trim, unaffected, unlabored, urbane,
varnished, velvety, virtuoso, well-bred, well-brought-up,
well-mannered
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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