Difference between Refined and Genteel

REFINED vs GENTEEL: ADJECTIVE

An absence of coarseness.
Freed from impurities or alloy; purifed; polished; cultured; delicate; as; refined gold; refined language; refined sentiments.
Precise to a fine degree.
Free of impurities; purified.
Free from coarseness or vulgarity; polite.
Suggesting taste, ease, and wealth
Free from what is tawdry or unbecoming
Showing a high degree of refinement and the assurance that comes from wide social experience
Made pure
Freed from impurities by processing
Showing or having good feelings or good taste.
Not vulgar.
Used of persons and their behavior; cultivated and genteel
Without impurities.

Marked by refinement in taste and manners
Refined or polite, often in an affected way: : polite.
Typical or characteristic of the upper class.
Elegantly stylish or fashionable.
Possessing or exhibiting the qualities popularly regarded as belonging to high birth and breeding; free from vulgarity, or lowness of taste or behavior; adapted to a refined or cultivated taste; polite; well-bred.
Graceful in mien or form; elegant in appearance, dress, or manner. Law.
Suited to the position of lady or a gentleman.
Polite and well-mannered.
Stylish or elegant.
Aristocratic

Very exact or precise; perfect or correct in details.
Purified; elevated; cultivated; subtle: as. a refined taste; a refined discrimination; refined society.

Synonyms Genteel, Polite, well-mannered, polished. Genteel refers to the outward chiefly; polite to the outward as an expression of inward refinement and kindness. Genteel has latterly tended to express a somewhat fastidious pride of refinement, family position, and the like. Genteel is often largely negative, meaning free from what is low, vulgar, or connected with the uncultivated classes; polite is positive and active, meaning that one acts in a certain way. Polite has, however, a passive meaning, that of ‘polished’: as, polite society, polite literature. See polite.
Fashionable; stylish; à la mode.
Adapted to, suitable for, or characteristic of polite society; free from vulgarity or meanness in appearance, quality, amount, etc.; elegant; becoming; adequate: as, genteel manners; a genteel address; genteel comedy; a genteel income or allowance.
Polite; well-bred; decorous in manners or behavior; refined: as, genteel company.

Graceful, Genteel, Civilized, Ladylike, Suave, Urbane, Cultivated, Pure, Purified, Processed, Tasteful, Cultured, Elegant, Sophisticated, Polished

Mannered, Mannerly, Aristocratic, Courtly, Decorous, Gentlemanly, Distinguishable, Proper, Distinguished, Nice, Cultivated, Refined, Cultured, Civilized, Polite

Graceful, Genteel, Civilized, Ladylike, Suave, Urbane, Cultivated, Pure, Purified, Processed, Tasteful, Cultured, Elegant, Sophisticated, Polished

Mannered, Mannerly, Aristocratic, Courtly, Decorous, Gentlemanly, Distinguishable, Proper, Distinguished, Nice, Cultivated, Refined, Cultured, Civilized, Polite

White bread, pasta made with refined wheat, etc.
This design was further refined to serve DDD.
May be refined, and join the angelic train.
Here, the goals and objectives have been refined.
In addition, reduce sodium intake and lower intake of refined grains, especially refined grains that are coupled with added sugar, solid fat, and sodium.
Refined carbohydrates, also called refined grains, cause a spike in blood glucose, which has been shown to increase inflammation in the body.
Need refined DBS techniques with novel programming techniques, refined electrodes, and possibly other sites in the brain to stimulate.
Like most refined oils, refined coconut oil is extracted with heat and chemical solvents.
Packaged versions are generally made with refined sugar, refined wheat flour, and added fats.
Examples would be: refined sugar, refined flour, soda pop, dairy products, etc.

Its genteel origins couldn't be further from that image.
LET, MA genteel Tenemeni in Iba Cobiirn Block, on An.
This was encouraged as a good hobby for genteel ladies.
Louis was a confidential servant, of genteel manners and appearances.
Genteel Pagan: The Double Life of Charles Warren Stoddard, ed.
We, on the other hand, are genteel and sophisticated.
Company at the different little Tables were quite genteel.
Lois Hornsby was such a genteel Southern lady.
BOURDAIN: He was the very opposite of genteel.
England, Cheltenham, which was one of the most genteel towns in the most genteel area of England.