English

Adjective

polished ‎(comparative more polished, superlative most polished)

1. Made smooth or shiny by polishing.
   • 1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess:

     A very neat old woman, still in her good outdoor coat and best beehive hat, was sitting at a polished mahogany table on whose surface there were several scored scratches so deep that a triangular piece of the veneer had come cleanly away, […].

   polished shoes‎

2. Refined, elegant.
   • 1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice:

     "What a charming amusement for young people this is, Mr. Darcy! There is nothing like dancing after all. I consider it as one of the first refinements of polished society."

   a polished performance‎

   • 1914, Louis Joseph Vance, Nobody, chapter III:

     She was frankly disappointed. For some reason she had thought to discover a burglar of one or another accepted type—either a dashing cracksman in full-blown evening dress, lithe, polished, pantherish, or a common yegg, a red-eyed, unshaven burly brute in the rags and tatters of a tramp.

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Verb

polished

1. simple past tense and past participle of polish

Anagrams

• depolish