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Refined vs Pleasing - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between refined and pleasing

is that refined is showing or having good feelings or good taste while pleasing is agreeable; giving pleasure, cheer, enjoyment or gratification.

As verbs the difference between refined and pleasing

is that refined is past tense of refine while pleasing is present participle of lang=en.

As a noun pleasing is

pleasure or satisfaction, as in the phrase "to my pleasing..

refined

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Showing or having good feelings or good taste.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)
    • , chapter=5, title= 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.
  • An absence of coarseness.
  • Not vulgar.
  • Without impurities.

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (refine)
    • The raw petroleum was refined into kerosene.

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    pleasing

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Agreeable; giving pleasure, cheer, enjoyment or gratification.

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    Noun

  • pleasure or satisfaction, as in the phrase "to my pleasing."
  • * (Isaac Barrow)
    • What more palpable confutation can there be of human vanity and arrogance, of all lofty imaginations, all presumptuous confidences, all turgid humours, all fond self-pleasings and self-admirings, than is that tragical cross

    Related terms

    * pleasant * pleasantly * satisfaction

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