polished

English

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Adjective

polished (comparative more polished, superlative most polished)

1. Made smooth or shiny by polishing.
   • 1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess^[1]:

     A very neat old woman, still in her good outdoor coat and best beehive hat, was sitting at a polished mahogany table on whose surface there were several scored scratches so deep that a triangular piece of the veneer had come cleanly away, […].

   polished shoes

2. Refined, elegant.
   • 1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice:

     "What a charming amusement for young people this is, Mr. Darcy! There is nothing like dancing after all. I consider it as one of the first refinements of polished society."

   a polished performance

Derived terms

• impolished
• perpolished
• polishedly
• polishedness
• unpolished
• well-polished

Translations

made smooth or shiny by polishing

• Armenian: ողորկ (hy) (oġork)
• Finnish: kiillotettu (fi)

• Greek: γυαλιστερός (el) (gyalisterós)

refined, elegant

• Finnish: hieno (fi), hienostunut (fi)

• Greek: ραφινάτος (el) (rafinátos)

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• Irish: slachtmhar (ga)

Verb

polished

1. simple past tense and past participle of polish

Anagrams

• depolish