polishing

abrading coarse

grinding gritty rough scratching

erosive scuffing sharpening smoothing

fine fine-grained

artistic developmental

adorning advancing beautifying beneficial broadening civilizing constructive corrective dignifying disciplining edifying educative elevating ennobling enriching expanding glorifying helpful humane humanizing influential inspirational instructive learned liberal liberalizing nurturing ornamenting promoting raising refined refining regenerative socializing stimulating uplifting widening

civilizing clarifying cleaning cultivating distillation elevating focusing honing improving perfecting purifying sharpening