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adjective. Made shiny and smooth by rubbing or chemical action.

adjective. Naturally shiny and smooth.

adjective. Having the husk or outer layers removed. Used of grains of rice.

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adjective. Refined or sophisticated.

adjective. Having no imperfections or errors; well-executed; flawless.

Made smooth by polishing.

Having naturally a smooth, lustrous surface, like that produced by polishing; specifically, in entomology smooth and shining, but without metallic luster.

Brought by training or elaboration to a condition void of roughness, irregularity, imperfections, or inelegances; carefully elaborated; especially, elegant; refined; polite.

Purified; absolved.

adjective. Made smooth and glossy, as by friction; hence, highly finished; refined; polite

adjective. Made smooth or shiny by polishing.

adjective. refined, elegant

verb. Simple past tense and past participle of polish.

adjective. (of grains especially rice) having the husk or outer layers removed

adjective. (of lumber or stone) to trim and smooth

adjective. showing a high degree of refinement and the assurance that comes from wide social experience

adjective. perfected or made shiny and smooth

"One of the great misfortunes, as also one of the great follies, of mankind, is that in all countries which we call polished, except, perhaps, China, priests concern themselves with what belongs only to philosophers."

elegant  refined  

bright  burnished  finished  lustrous  processed  

impolished  perpolished  polishedly  polishedness  unpolished  

abolished  demolished  

Attic  Ciceronian  accomplished  adept  advanced  

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