Lenient vs Refined - What's the difference?
lenient | refined |
Lax; tolerant of deviation; permissive; not strict.
* 1847 , , (Jane Eyre), Chapter XVIII
Showing or having good feelings or good taste.
*{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)
, chapter=5, title= An absence of coarseness.
Not vulgar.
Without impurities.
(refine)
As adjectives the difference between lenient and refined
is that lenient is lax; tolerant of deviation; permissive; not strict while refined is showing or having good feelings or good taste.As a noun lenient
is (medicine) a lenitive; an emollient.As a verb refined is
(refine).lenient
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The standard is fairly lenient , so use your discretion.
- But in other points, as well as this, I was growing very lenient to my master; I was forgetting all his faults, for which I had once kept a sharp look-out. It had formerly been my endeavour to study all sides of his character; to take the bad with the good; and from the just weighing of both, to form an equitable judgment. Now I saw no bad.
Synonyms
* lax, permissiveAntonyms
* strict * severe * stringentExternal links
* * * ----refined
English
Adjective
(en adjective)A Cuckoo in the Nest, passage=The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite.
Verb
(head)- The raw petroleum was refined into kerosene.