Refined vs. Rustic — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Refined and Rustic
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Definitions
Refined
Free from coarseness or vulgarity; polite.
Rustic
Of, relating to, or typical of country life or country people.
Refined
Free of impurities; purified.
Rustic
Lacking the refinement or elegance associated with urban life.
Refined
Precise to a fine degree.
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Rustic
Charmingly simple or unsophisticated in a manner considered typical of country living.
Refined
Simple past tense and past participle of refine
The raw petroleum was refined into kerosene.
Rustic
Made of unfinished or roughly finished wood
Rustic furniture.
Refined
Precise, freed from imprecision, particularly:
Rustic
Having a rough or textured appearance; rusticated. Used of masonry.
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Refined
Sagacious, sometimes oversubtle or feigning sagacity.
Rustic
A rural person.
Refined
Subtle, scrupulous, carefully thought out.
The argument, while not persuasive, is quite refined.
Rustic
A person regarded as unsophisticated, guileless, or coarse from having been raised in the country.
Refined
Developed, improved.
The curriculum has been carefully refined to meet the needs of foreign students.
Rustic
Country-styled or pastoral; rural.
Refined
Cultured, freed from vulgarity, particularly:
Rustic
Unfinished or roughly finished.
Rustic manners
Refined
Elevated and polished.
In the British Isles, Oxbridge is considered refined; Geordie somewhat less so.
Rustic
Crude, rough.
Rustic country where the sheep and cattle roamed freely
Refined
Elegant, sometimes affected, prissy, or bloodless.
Don Draper was a man of refined tastes.
Rustic
Simple; artless; unaffected.
Refined
Purified, reduced in or freed from impurities, particularly:
Rustic
A (sometimes unsophisticated) person from a rural area.
Refined
Highly-processed and pure.
Under current guidelines, refined sugar must be at least five times purer than its raw counterpart.
Rustic
A noctuoid moth.
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.
Rustic
Any of various nymphalid butterflies having brown and orange wings, especially Cupha erymanthis.
Refined
Morally pure.
Rustic
Of or pertaining to the country; rural; as, the rustic gods of antiquity.
And many a holy text around she strews,That teach the rustic moralist to die.
She had a rustic, woodland air.
Refined
Dealing in a refined product such as sugar or petroleum.
Rustic
Rude; awkward; rough; unpolished; as, rustic manners.
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.
Rustic
Coarse; plain; simple; as, a rustic entertainment; rustic dress.
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.
Rustic
Simple; artless; unadorned; unaffected.
Refined
Used of persons and their behavior; cultivated and genteel;
She was delicate and refined and unused to hardship
Refined people with refined taste
Rustic
An inhabitant of the country, especially one who is rude, coarse, or dull; a clown.
Hence to your fields, you rustics! hence, away.
Refined
Freed from impurities by processing;
Refined sugar
Refined oil
To gild refined gold
Rustic
A rural person having a natural simplicity of character or manners; an artless, unaffected person.
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
Rustic
An unsophisticated country person
Refined
Made pure
Rustic
Characteristic of rural life;
Countrified clothes
Rustic awkwardness
Refined
Suggesting taste, ease, and wealth
Rustic
Awkwardly simple and provincial;
Bumpkinly country boys
Rustic farmers
A hick town
The nightlife of Montmartre awed the unsophisticated tourists
Refined
Free from what is tawdry or unbecoming;
A neat style
A neat set of rules
She hated to have her neat plans upset
Rustic
Used of idealized country life;
A country life of arcadian contentment
A pleasant bucolic scene
Charming in its pastoral setting
Rustic tranquility
Rustic
Characteristic of the fields or country;
Agrestic simplicity
Rustic stone walls
