| Main Entry: | refinement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cleansing |
Synonyms: |
clarification, cleaning, depuration, detersion, distillation, draining, filtering, processing, purification, rarefaction, rectification |
Antonyms: |
corruption, dirtying, pollution |
| Main Entry: | refinement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cultivation, civilization |
Synonyms: |
affability, civility, courtesy, courtliness, delicacy, dignity, discrimination, elegance, enlightenment, erudition, fastidiousness, fine point, fine tuning, fineness, finesse, finish, gentility, gentleness, good breeding, good manners, grace, graciousness, knowledge, lore, nicety, nuance, polish, politeness, politesse, precision, sophistication, style, suavity, subtlety, tact, taste, urbanity |
Antonyms: |
bad manners, crudeness, rudeness |
| Main Entry: | acumen |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ability to understand and reason |
Synonyms: |
acuity, acuteness, astuteness, awareness, brains, brilliance, cleverness, comprehension, cunning, discernment, discrimination, farsightedness, good taste, grasp, guile, ingenuity, insight, intellect, intelligence, intuition, judgment, keenness, perception, percipience, perspicacity, perspicuity, refinement, sagacity, sensitivity, sharpness, shrewdness, smartness, smarts, understanding, vision, wisdom, wit |
| Notes: | acumen suggests that keenness relates to a person's mind, whereas acuity suggests that it relates to a person's performance; acumen is something that a person has, whereas acuity is something that a person displays |
Antonyms: |
denseness, ignorance, inability, ineptness, obtuseness, stupidity |
| Main Entry: | amenity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pleasing, agreeable behavior |
Synonyms: |
affability, agreeableness, amiability, attention, attractiveness, charity, charm, complaisance, cordiality, courtesy, delightfulness, enjoyableness, etiquette, gallantry, geniality, gentility, gratefulness, kindness, mildness, pleasantness, politeness, refinement, suavity, sweetness |
Antonyms: |
disruption, misbehavior |
| Main Entry: | beauty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | physical attractiveness |
Synonyms: |
adorableness, allure, allurement, artistry, attraction, bloom, charm, class, comeliness, delicacy, elegance, exquisiteness, fairness, fascination, glamor, good looks, grace, handsomeness, loveliness, polish, pulchritude, refinement, shapeliness, style, symmetry, winsomeness |
Antonyms: |
homeliness, offensiveness, ugliness |
| Main Entry: | breeding |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cultivation of person |
Synonyms: |
ancestry, civility, conduct, courtesy, culture, development, gentility, grace, lineage, manners, nurture, polish, raising, rearing, refinement, schooling, training, upbringing, urbanity |
| Main Entry: | change |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something made different; alteration |
Synonyms: |
about-face, addition, adjustment, advance, break, compression, contraction, conversion, correction, development, difference, distortion, diversification, diversity, innovation, metamorphosis, modification, modulation, mutation, novelty, permutation, reconstruction, refinement, remodeling, reversal, revision, revolution, shift, surrogate, switch, tempering, transformation, transition, transmutation, turn, turnover, variance, variation, variety, vicissitude |
| Main Entry: | civilization |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | culture, sophistication |
Synonyms: |
acculturation, advancement, breeding, civility, cultivation, development, edification, education, elevation, enlightenment, illumination, polish, progress, refinement, social well-being |
Antonyms: |
barbarism, primitiveness |
| Main Entry: | classicism |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | simple style; regularity, restraint |
Synonyms: |
Atticism, Ciceronianism, Hellenism, aesthetic principle, balance, clarity, class, classicalism, conventional formality, dignity, elegance, excellence, finish, formal style, formality, grand style, grandeur, high art, lucidity, majesty, neoclassicism, nobility, objectivity, polish, proportion, propriety, pure taste, purity, rationalism, refinement, rhythm, severity, simplicity, sobriety, sublimity, symmetry |
| Main Entry: | courtesy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | good manners |
Synonyms: |
address, affability, amenities, amiability, attentiveness, ceremony, chivalry, civility, comity, complaisance, consideration, cordiality, courteousness, courtliness, cultivation, culture, deference, elegance, familiarity, favor, friendliness, gallantness, gallantry, generosity, geniality, gentleness, good behavior, good breeding, graciousness, indulgence, kindness, polish, politeness, refinement, respect, reverence, solicitude, suavity, sympathy, tact, thoughtfulness, urbanity |
Antonyms: |
bad manners, discourtesy, impoliteness, pompousness, rudeness, unmannerliness |