adj
Meaning 1
Made smooth or shiny by polishing.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- polished shoes
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
polished
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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General-American: pŏlʹĭsht
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General-American: /ˈpɑlɪʃt/
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Received-Pronunciation: pŏlʹĭsht
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈpɒlɪʃt/
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adj
Meaning 2
Refined, elegant.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- a polished performance
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 3
simple past and past participle of polish
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, participle, past
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective
Meaning 4
perfected or made shiny and smooth
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- his polished prose
- in a freshly ironed dress and polished shoes
- freshly polished silver
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: unpolished
adjective satellite
Meaning 5
(of lumber or stone) to trim and smooth
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: dressed
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 6
(of grains especially rice) having the husk or outer layers removed
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- polished rice
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: milled
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 7
showing a high degree of refinement and the assurance that comes from wide social experience
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- his polished manner
- maintained an urbane tone in his letters
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: refined, svelte, urbane
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
No etymology was provided for this word.
Across languages
Translations
32 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Armenian: ողորկ (oġork) — made smooth or shiny by polishing
- Bulgarian: блестящ (blestjašt) — made smooth or shiny by polishing
- Bulgarian: полиран (poliran) — made smooth or shiny by polishing
- Dutch: gepoetst — made smooth or shiny by polishing
- Finnish: kiillotettu — made smooth or shiny by polishing
- French: poli — made smooth or shiny by polishing
- German: poliert — made smooth or shiny by polishing
- Greek: γυαλιστερός (gyalisterós) — made smooth or shiny by polishing
- Hebrew: מְצֻחְצָח (m'tsukhtsákh) — made smooth or shiny by polishing
- Italian: lucido — made smooth or shiny by polishing
- Italian: rifinito — made smooth or shiny by polishing
- Latin: polītus — made smooth or shiny by polishing
- Romanian: polizat — made smooth or shiny by polishing
- Romanian: lustruit — made smooth or shiny by polishing
- Russian: полиро́ванный (poliróvannyj) — made smooth or shiny by polishing
- Sicilian: pulizziatu — made smooth or shiny by polishing
- Ukrainian: поліро́ваний (poliróvanyj) — made smooth or shiny by polishing
- Welsh: caboledig — made smooth or shiny by polishing
- Bulgarian: изискан (iziskan) — refined, elegant
- Bulgarian: елегантен (eleganten) — refined, elegant
- Finnish: hieno — refined, elegant
- Finnish: hienostunut — refined, elegant
- Greek: ραφινάτος (rafinátos) — refined, elegant
- Italian: elegante — refined, elegant
- Italian: pulito — refined, elegant
- Italian: perfezionato — refined, elegant
- Italian: rifinito — refined, elegant
- Romanian: șlefuit — refined, elegant
- Sicilian: pulitu — refined, elegant
- Welsh: caboledig — refined, elegant
- Welsh: llathredig — refined, elegant
- Welsh: graenus — refined, elegant
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