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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bright |
| Synonyms: | gleaming, glistening, glossy, shining, shiny |
| Main Entry: | polished |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | referring to writing or speech |
| Synonyms: | elaborate, elegant, ornate, perfected |
| Main Entry: | polished |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | well executed |
| Synonyms: | accomplished, excellent, flawless, impeccable, masterful, masterly, skilled, skillful |
| Main Entry: | polished |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | elegant |
| Synonyms: | bright, buffed, burnished, cavalier, courteous, courtly, couth, cultivated, diplomatic, glistening, polite, politic, refined, shiny, smooth, suave, tactful, urbane |
| Antonyms: | unpolished |
| Main Entry: | polish |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | shine, buff |
| Synonyms: | brighten, burnish, clean, finish, furbish, glaze, gloss, rub, scour, scrub, sleek, slick, smooth, wax |
| Antonyms: | dull, roughen |
| Main Entry: | polish |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | improve performance, look |
| Synonyms: | amend, better, brush up, correct, cultivate, emend, enhance, finish, furbish, make improvement, mature, mend, perfect, refine, round, sleek, slick, smooth, touch up |
| Antonyms: | deface, ruin, spoil |
| Main Entry: | accomplished |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | skilled in activity |
| Synonyms: | able, adept, brainy, consummate, cool*, cultivated, expert, gifted, hep, hip*, masterly, polished, practiced, proficient, savvy, sharp, skillful, talented, wised up, with it |
| Antonyms: | inept, inexpert, unable |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | aristocratic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | privileged, elegant |
| Synonyms: | aloof, blue-blooded, courtly, dignified, elegant, elite, fine, haughty, noble, patrician, polished, refined, snobbish, stylish, upper-class, well-born, well-bred |
| Antonyms: | low-born, low-life, poor, unprivileged, vulgar, wanting |
| Main Entry: | bright |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | shining, glowing in appearance |
| Synonyms: | ablaze, aglow, alight, argent, auroral, beaming, blazing, brilliant, burning, burnished, coruscating, dazzling, effulgent, flashing, fulgent, fulgid, glaring, gleaming, glistening, glittering, glossy, golden, illuminated, illumined, incandescent, intense, irradiated, lambent, light, lighted, limpid, luminous, lustrous, mirrorlike, moonlit, phosphorescent, polished, radiant, relucent, resplendent, scintillating, shimmering, shiny, silvery, sparkling, sunlit, sunny, twinkling, vivid |
| Antonyms: | dark, dreary, dull, obscure, somber |
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