Reverse Dictionary: REFINE

ADJECTIVES
1596 ► polished, refined, cultured → POLITIC → Sc. obs. rare
1598 ►of a person: refined, cultured → CULT → obs.
1625 ► over-refined or self-indulgent, esp. in regard to diet; feeding or eating daintily; delicate, fastidious, finicky → ABRODIETICAL → obs. rare
1632 ​► having gentle, refined, or polished manners, well-mannered → GENTILITATE → obs. rare
E18  ► over-fastidious, over-refined → PRECIOUS
1815 ► ridiculously delicate, precise, or affected; finicky, over-refined → MIMINY-PIMINY → obs.
1941 ► affectedly refined, pretentious, precious; also, cheaply showy or flashy in dress or appearance → PISS-ELEGANT → sl.
1950 ► fancy, refined → RANCY-TANCY → Aust. rhyming sl.

NOUNS
1350 ► fastidious or carefully affected refinement, as in language, style, or taste → PRECIOSITY 
1593 ► elegance; refinement; polish of style or manners → POLITURE
1611 ► a being polished; smoothness, refinement → POLISHURE → obs. rare
1627 ► intellectual refinement; polish, elegance, good taste → POLITENESS → obs.
1971 ► the state of being affectedly refined or pretentious → PISS-ELEGANCE → sl.

NOUNS, PERSON
1623 ► a person of over-refined or self-indulgent tastes; a delicate person, a dainty eater  → ABRODIETICAL → obs. rare
1711 ► refined or cultured people as a class → THE POLITE
1953 ► a refined, accomplished young woman, either married or single → MISS-WOMAN → Amer. dial.

PHRASES
1999 ► something too refined to be generally appreciated → CAVIAR TO THE GENERAL → (Bk.)

VERBS
1644 ► to refine a person, or his manners; to free from rudeness or rusticity → SMOOTH → obs.
1855 ► to divest of what is crass, gross, or material; to purify, to refine → DECRASSIFY → rare
1864 ► to render aesthetic, or agreeable to a refined taste; to refine → AESTHETICIZE