Refined vs. Suave — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Refined and Suave
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Definitions
Refined
Free from coarseness or vulgarity; polite.
Suave
Suave is a brand name based in Chicago, Illinois, used by the Unilever company in the United States, Argentina, Brazil, Mexico and Canada. Targeting discount stores, the brand represents more than 100 products including shampoo, lotions, soaps and deodorant.
Refined
Free of impurities; purified.
Suave
Courteous and elegant; gracious and sophisticated.
Refined
Precise to a fine degree.
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Suave
Charming, confident and elegant.
A man with a suave demeanor
Refined
Simple past tense and past participle of refine
The raw petroleum was refined into kerosene.
Suave
Sweet talk.
Refined
Precise, freed from imprecision, particularly:
Suave
Sweet; pleasant; delightful; gracious or agreeable in manner; bland.
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Refined
Sagacious, sometimes oversubtle or feigning sagacity.
Suave
Having a sophisticated charm;
A debonair gentleman
Refined
Subtle, scrupulous, carefully thought out.
The argument, while not persuasive, is quite refined.
Suave
Smoothly agreeable and courteous with a degree of sophistication;
He was too politic to quarrel with so important a personage
The hostess averted a confrontation between two guests with a diplomatic change of subject
The manager pacified the customer with a smooth apology for the error
Affable, suave, moderate men...smugly convinced of their respectability
Refined
Developed, improved.
The curriculum has been carefully refined to meet the needs of foreign students.
Refined
Cultured, freed from vulgarity, particularly:
Refined
Elevated and polished.
In the British Isles, Oxbridge is considered refined; Geordie somewhat less so.
Refined
Elegant, sometimes affected, prissy, or bloodless.
Don Draper was a man of refined tastes.
Refined
Purified, reduced in or freed from impurities, particularly:
Refined
Highly-processed and pure.
Under current guidelines, refined sugar must be at least five times purer than its raw counterpart.
Refined
Free of dross or alloy.
The Temple at Jerusalem preferred Tyrian shekels, since even with Ba'al's portrait they bore highly refined silver.
Refined
Morally pure.
Refined
Dealing in a refined product such as sugar or petroleum.
Refined
The refined form of a commodity, as opposed to its raw or generic form.
We're still purchasing copper ore, but the market for refined is weaker.
Refined
Freed from impurities or alloy; purifed; polished; cultured; delicate; as; refined gold; refined language; refined sentiments.
Refined wits who honored poesy with their pens.
Refined
Used of persons and their behavior; cultivated and genteel;
She was delicate and refined and unused to hardship
Refined people with refined taste
Refined
Freed from impurities by processing;
Refined sugar
Refined oil
To gild refined gold
Refined
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
Refined
Made pure
Refined
Suggesting taste, ease, and wealth
Refined
Free from what is tawdry or unbecoming;
A neat style
A neat set of rules
She hated to have her neat plans upset
