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单词 overrefined
释义

overrefined

adjective

over·​re·​fined ˌō-vər-ri-ˈfīnd How to pronounce overrefined (audio)
: excessively refined
… appears to be attempting to shed his overrefined appearance to demonstrate … he can hurl partisan vitriol with the best of them. David Catanese
… its clichéd reputation … as the most overrefined, overcivilized, repressed nation on Earth, a place of raised pinkies and cakes … Russell Smith
Our version switches out the potatoes for yams and the overrefined vegetable oil for coconut oil … Margaret Floyd and James Barry
overrefinement
ˌō-vər-ri-ˈfīn-mənt How to pronounce overrefined (audio)
noun
plural overrefinements
… a boy some seventeen years of age, with his hands all skinned and sore from having picked corn in the cornfield, in those days when a glove was an overrefinement Francis G. Blair

Word History

First Known Use

1709, in the meaning defined above

overrefined

adjective

1
as in failing

Synonyms & Similar Words

Relevance
  • failing
  • declining
  • precious
  • dying
  • weakened
  • degenerate
  • decayed
  • overripe
  • weak
  • enfeebled
  • waning
  • feeble
  • debilitated
  • decaying
  • wimpy
  • wasted
  • sapped
  • washed-up
  • degraded
  • enervated
  • decadent
  • soft
  • enervate
  • dissipated
  • immoral
  • effete
  • languid
  • debased
  • depraved
  • demoralized
  • dissolute
  • frail
  • debauched
  • dissolute

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • undecadent
2
as in exaggerated

Synonyms & Similar Words

  • exaggerated
  • cute
  • simpering
  • theatrical
  • overdone
  • conventional
  • mincing
  • studied
  • melodramatic
  • calculated
  • wooden
  • hypocritical
  • cutesy
  • stylized
  • cultivated
  • genteel
  • histrionic
  • rigid
  • formal
  • affected
  • goody-goody
  • inflexible
  • hollow
  • impersonal
  • automatic
  • conscious
  • manufactured
  • deliberate
  • theatric
  • stiff
  • empty
  • premeditated
  • unctuous
  • overacted
  • facile
  • artful
  • assumed
  • insincere
  • simulated
  • pat
  • contrived
  • canned
  • forced
  • unrealistic
  • unreal
  • fabricated
  • strained
  • mechanical
  • pretended
  • concocted
  • labored
  • pseudo
  • two-faced
  • hokey
  • artificial
  • plastic
  • unnatural
  • mealymouthed
  • mock
  • feigned
  • bogus
  • mealy
  • left-handed
  • spurious
  • fake
  • sham
  • unauthentic
  • double-dealing
  • false
  • factitious
  • phony
  • put-on
  • phoney

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • bona fide
  • unaffected
  • natural
  • spontaneous
  • genuine
  • real
  • right
  • true
  • authentic
  • artless
  • realistic
  • unfeigned
  • easy
  • honest
  • smooth
  • sincere
  • uncontrived
  • unforced
  • unconscious
  • effortless
  • instinctive
  • impromptu
  • impulsive
  • unstudied
  • extemporaneous
  • unpretending
  • ingenuous
  • unprompted
  • unrehearsed
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