Overrefined

2 definitions found

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  overrefined
       adj : excessively delicate or refined [syn: {superfine}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  93 Moby Thesaurus words for "overrefined":


     Gongoresque, Gongoristic, Marinistic, affected, allergic,
     anaphylactic, apparently sound, artificial, casuistic, chichi,
     colorable, deceptive, delicate, disingenuous, elaborate,
     elaborated, elegant, empathetic, empathic, empty, euphemistic,
     euphuistic, exquisite, fallacious, formalistic, goody good-good,
     goody-goody, goosy, hairsplitting, hollow, hypercritical,
     hyperelegant, hyperesthetic, hyperpathic, hypersensitive, illusive,
     insincere, irritable, itchy, jesuitic, la-di-da, mannered, mincing,
     morbidly sensitive, namby-pamby, nervous, overconscientious,
     overcritical, overelaborate, overelegant, overfastidious,
     overmeticulous, overnice, overparticular, overprecise,
     overscrupulous, oversensible, oversensitive, oversqueamish,
     oversubtle, overtender, passible, pedantic, philosophistic,
     plausible, precieuse, precieux, precious, precisian,
     precisianistic, precisionistic, pretentious, prickly, puristic,
     refined, responsive, sensitive, simpering, skittish, sophistic,
     sophistical, specious, studied, supersensitive, sympathetic,
     tactful, tender, tetchy, thin-skinned, ticklish, touchy,
     ultracritical, unnatural