Tasteful vs Refined - What's the difference?
tasteful | refined | Related terms |
having or exhibiting good taste; aesthetically pleasing or conforming to expectations or ideals of what is appropriate
:Her home was decorated with tasteful , classical furnishings.
Having a high relish; savoury.
* Alexander Pope
(colloquial): gay; fashionable.
Showing or having good feelings or good taste.
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, chapter=5, title= An absence of coarseness.
Not vulgar.
Without impurities.
(refine)
As adjectives the difference between tasteful and refined
is that tasteful is having or exhibiting good taste; aesthetically pleasing or conforming to expectations or ideals of what is appropriate while refined is showing or having good feelings or good taste.As a verb refined is
past tense of refine.tasteful
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Tasteful herbs.
Antonyms
* gaudyAnagrams
*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.