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Virtuous vs Refined - What's the difference?

virtuous | refined |

As adjectives the difference between virtuous and refined

is that virtuous is full of virtue, having excellent moral character while refined is showing or having good feelings or good taste.

As a verb refined is

(refine).

virtuous

English

Alternative forms

* vertuous (obsolete) * vertuus (obsolete)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Full of virtue, having excellent moral character.
  • Synonyms

    * good * righteous

    Derived terms

    * virtuousness

    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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