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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | adult, grown-up |
| Synonyms: | complete, cultivated, cultured, developed, fit, full-blown, full-fledged, full-grown, fully grown, grown, in full bloom, in one's prime, matured, mellow, mellowed, of age, perfected, prepared, prime, ready, ripe, ripened, seasoned, settled, sophisticated |
| Antonyms: | green, immature, inexperienced, young, youthful |
| Main Entry: | refined |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | cultured, civilized |
| Synonyms: | aesthetic, civil, classy*, courteous, courtly, cultivated, delicate, discerning, discriminating, elegant, enlightened, exact, fastidious, fine, finespun, genteel, gracious, high-brow, high-minded, nice, plush, polished, polite, posh, precise, punctilious, restrained, ritzy, sensitive, snazzy, sophisticated, spiffy, suave, sublime, subtle, swanky*, tasteful, urbane, well-bred, well-mannered |
| Antonyms: | uncivilized, uncultured, unrefined, unsophisticated |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | ritzy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | elegant, luxurious |
| Synonyms: | aristocratic, chic, choice, classy, cultivated, dignified, elaborate, expensive, exquisite, fancy, fine, grand, grandiose, handsome, lavish, lush, opulent, ornamented, ornate, ostentatious, overdone, plush, posh, refined, rich, snazzy, stately, stuffy, sumptuous, swank |
| Main Entry: | sophisticated |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | cosmopolitan, cultured |
| Synonyms: | adult, artificial, been around, blasé, bored, citified, cool*, couth, cultivated, cynical, disenchanted, disillusioned, experienced, in, in the know, into*, jaded, jet-set, knowing, laid-back*, mature, mondaine, on to, practical, practiced, refined, schooled, seasoned, sharp, skeptical, smooth, stagy, streetwise, studied, suave, svelte, switched on, uptown, urbane, well-bred, wise to, wised up, with it, world-weary, worldly, worldly wise |
| Antonyms: | naive, uncultivated, uncultured, unrefined, unsophisticated |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | suave |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | charming, smooth |
| Synonyms: | affable, agreeable, bland, civilized, cordial, courteous, courtly, cultivated, cultured, diplomatic, distingué, fulsome, genial, glib, gracious, ingratiating, obliging, oily, pleasant, pleasing, polished, polite, politic, refined, smooth-tongued, sociable, soft*, soft-spoken, sophisticated, unctuous, urbane, well-bred, worldly |
| Antonyms: | awkward, clumsy, unpolished, unsophisticated |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | tame |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | domesticated, compliant |
| Synonyms: | acclimatized, amenable, biddable, bridled, broken, busted, civilized, cultivated, disciplined, docile, domestic, fearless, gentle, gentle as a lamb, habituated, harmless, harnessed, housebroken, kindly, manageable, meek, mild, muzzled, obedient, overcome, pliable, pliant, subdued, submissive, tractable, trained, unafraid, unresisting, yoked |
| Antonyms: | unmanageable, untamed, violent, wild |
| Main Entry: | tasteful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | nice, refined |
| Synonyms: | aesthetically pleasing, artistic, beautiful, charming, chaste, classical, classy, cultivated, cultured, delectable, delicate, discriminating, elegant, esthetic, exquisite, fastidious, fine, graceful, gratifying, handsome, harmonious, in good taste, pleasing, plush, polished, posh, precise, pure, quiet, restrained, rich, savory, smart, snazzy, spiffy, splendiferous, stylish, subdued, swank, tasty, unaffected, unobtrusive, uptown |
| Antonyms: | tasteless, unrefined, unsophisticated, unstylish |
| Main Entry: | urbane |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | civilized |
| Synonyms: | affable, balanced, bland, civil, cosmopolitan, courteous, cultivated, cultured, debonair, elegant, genteel, gracious, mannerly, metropolitan, obliging, poised, polished, polite, refined, smooth, sophisticated, suave, well-bred, well-mannered |
| Notes: | urban refers to a city; urbane means polished and smooth, as in a person's demeanor |
| Antonyms: | uncivilized, uncouth, unsophisticated |
| Main Entry: | well-mannered |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | having good manners |
| Synonyms: | courteous, cultivated, cultured, genteel, polished, polite, refined |
| Antonyms: | rude |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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