| artless |
lacking skill or refinement; crude. [1/3 definitions] |
| bourgeois |
lacking artistic or social refinement; philistine. [1/6 definitions] |
| civilization |
refinement in intellectual and cultural matters. [1/6 definitions] |
| coarse |
lacking social refinement or sensitivity; crude; vulgar. [1/3 definitions] |
| crass |
lacking in sensitivity or refinement; crude. |
| culture |
a developed state of refinement through experience or training in the arts and worldly affairs. [1/8 definitions] |
| delicacy |
refinement of feeling, thought, or perception. [1/8 definitions] |
| distillate |
anything regarded as an essence, abstraction, concentrate, or refinement. [1/2 definitions] |
| effete |
marked by excessive refinement or delicateness of taste. [1/2 definitions] |
| elegance |
the quality of refinement, taste, and grace, esp. when combined with richness of decoration or design. [1/3 definitions] |
| elegant |
having especial refinement, taste, or dignity. [1/3 definitions] |
| formal |
suggesting or displaying refinement or elegance combined with propriety, sometimes at the expense of emotional or physical comfort. [1/9 definitions] |
| genteel |
displaying traits such as refinement and politeness that are traditionally associated with wealth and education. [1/2 definitions] |
| gentility |
the quality or state of one who is genteel; refinement of manners and behavior. [1/2 definitions] |
| inelegant |
without taste, grace, or refinement; not elegant. |
| lapidary |
marked by exactness and refinement. [1/5 definitions] |
| mince |
to pronounce or utter with unnatural or affected refinement. [1/7 definitions] |
| overrefinement |
combined form of refinement. |
| preciosity |
excessive care or refinement in language or style, or an instance of this. |
| raw |
lacking refinement; crude. [1/8 definitions] |
| rough-and-ready |
showing or characterized by rough vigor and quick response rather than refinement, formality, or the like. [1/2 definitions] |