Synonyms: neat, tasteful, refined
Definition: free from what is tawdry or unbecoming
Usage: a neat style; a neat set of rules; she hated to have her neat plans upset
Similar words: elegant
Definition: refined and tasteful in appearance or behavior or style
Usage: elegant handwriting; an elegant dark suit; she was elegant to her fingertips; small churches with elegant white spires; an elegant mathematical solution--simple and precise and lucid
Synonyms: graceful, elegant, refined
Definition: suggesting taste, ease, and wealth
Similar words: gracious
Definition: characterized by charm, good taste, and generosity of spirit
Usage: gracious even to unexpected visitors; gracious living; he bears insult with gracious good humor
Synonyms: refined
Definition: (used of persons and their behavior) cultivated and genteel
Usage: she was delicate and refined and unused to hardship; refined people with refined taste
Similar words: polite, genteel, civilised, civilized, cultivated, cultured
Definition: marked by refinement in taste and manners
Usage: cultivated speech; cultured Bostonians; cultured tastes; a genteel old lady; polite society
Similar words: couth
Definition: (used facetiously) refined
Similar words: dainty, niminy-piminy, mincing, prim, twee
Definition: affectedly dainty or refined
Similar words: suave, debonair, debonaire, debonnaire
Definition: having a sophisticated charm
Usage: a debonair gentleman
Similar words: delicate, finespun
Definition: developed with extreme delicacy and subtlety
Usage: the satire touches with finespun ridicule every kind of human pretense
Similar words: gentlemanlike, gentlemanly
Definition: befitting a man of good breeding
Usage: gentlemanly behavior
Similar words: ladylike
Definition: befitting a woman of good breeding
Usage: ladylike manners
Similar words: patrician
Definition: befitting a person of noble origin
Usage: a patrician nose
Similar words: overrefined, superfine
Definition: excessively delicate or refined
Similar words: well-bred, well-mannered
Definition: of good upbringing
Synonyms: urbane, polished, refined, svelte
Definition: showing a high degree of refinement and the assurance that comes from wide social experience
Usage: his polished manner; maintained an urbane tone in his letters
Similar words: sophisticated
Definition: having or appealing to those having worldly knowledge and refinement and savoir-faire
Usage: sophisticated young socialites; a sophisticated audience; a sophisticated lifestyle; a sophisticated book