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Princeton's WordNet

  1. polishedadjective

    perfected or made shiny and smooth

    "his polished prose"; "in a freshly ironed dress and polished shoes"; "freshly polished silver"

  2. polished, refined, svelte, urbaneadjective

    showing a high degree of refinement and the assurance that comes from wide social experience

    "his polished manner"; "maintained an urbane tone in his letters"

  3. milled, polishedadjective

    (of grains especially rice) having the husk or outer layers removed

    "polished rice"

  4. dressed, polishedadjective

    (of lumber or stone) to trim and smooth

Wiktionary

  1. polishedadjective

    Made smooth or shiny by polishing.

    polished shoes

  2. polishedadjective

    refined, elegant

    a polished performance

ChatGPT

  1. polished

    Polished refers to something that has been refined, improved, or perfected to a high level of sophistication, skill, or shine, either literally or metaphorically. It can refer to the surface of an object that is shiny and smooth because it has been rubbed or treated, or to a person's behavior or work that is elegant, refined or highly developed.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Polished

    of Polish

  2. Polishedadjective

    made smooth and glossy, as by friction; hence, highly finished; refined; polite; as, polished plate; polished manners; polished verse

Wikidata

  1. Polished

    Polished is an award winning short film directed by Ed Gass-Donnelly, featuring William B. Davis as a lonely aging businessman who yearns for human contact from shoeshiner Karyn Dwyer.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of polished in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of polished in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of polished in a Sentence

  1. Chinese Proverb:

    The gem cannot be polished without friction, not a man perfected without trials.

  2. Sharon Salzberg:

    Often we can achieve an even better result when we stumble yet are willing to start over, when we don't give up after a mistake, when something doesn't come easily but we throw ourselves into trying, when we're not afraid to appear less than perfectly polished.

  3. Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi:

    Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more -- more unseen forms become manifest to him.

  4. Logan Pearsall Smith:

    What pursuit is more elegant than that of collecting the ignominies of our nature and transfixing them for show, each on the bright pin of a polished phrase?

  5. Robert South:

    Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends.

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