"ultrarefined" meaning in All languages combined

See ultrarefined on Wiktionary

Adjective [English]

IPA: /ˌʌltɹəɹiːfaɪnd/ Forms: more ultrarefined [comparative], most ultrarefined [superlative]
Etymology: ultra- + refined Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|ultra|refined}} ultra- + refined Head templates: {{en-adj}} ultrarefined (comparative more ultrarefined, superlative most ultrarefined)
  1. Extremely refined; sometimes, more refined than a specific purity cutoff for a particular substance. Synonyms: ultra-refined
    Sense id: en-ultrarefined-en-adj-Vv5kvMWo Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with ultra-

Alternative forms

Download JSON data for ultrarefined meaning in All languages combined (2.8kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ultra",
        "3": "refined"
      },
      "expansion": "ultra- + refined",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "ultra- + refined",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more ultrarefined",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most ultrarefined",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "ultrarefined (comparative more ultrarefined, superlative most ultrarefined)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms prefixed with ultra-",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1879, The Physician and Surgeon: A Professional Medical Journal, Ann Arbor, Mich, page 130",
          "text": "This doctrine may sound somewhat sacrilegious to the ultrarefined laboratorian, but it is stating conditions exactly as they are and as they are bound to be for generations in everyday medical life, outside of hospitals.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1907, Hubert Howe Bancroft, Some Cities and San Francisco, and Resurgam, The Bancroft Company, pages 20–21",
          "text": "As an instance of modern aesthetic town construction one might cite Denver, a western Yankee metropolis of ultrarefined men and women from down Boston way, breathing a nomenclature never so freely used before among mid-continent mountains, streets, schoolhouses, parks, and gardens all alive with the names of New England poets, philosophers, and statesmen. Scarcely yet turned the half century in age, few such charming cities as Denver have been made with fewer mistakes.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1909, Thomas Joseph Brooks, The March of Intellect: A Review of Man's Achievements That Make for the Advancement of Civilization and a Glimpse of the Future, Broadway Publishing Company, page 127",
          "text": "There never was a time when men of thought did not spring up among the primitive millions. Barbaric instincts are constantly recurring to perplex and shock the sensibilities of the ultrarefined, and primitive specimens of humanity float like waifs on the surface of our civilization till borne beneath the current, or wrecked on its shores. All grades of intellectual development that have ever existed exist today somewhere on the face of the earth.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Extremely refined; sometimes, more refined than a specific purity cutoff for a particular substance."
      ],
      "id": "en-ultrarefined-en-adj-Vv5kvMWo",
      "links": [
        [
          "refined",
          "refined"
        ],
        [
          "purity",
          "purity"
        ],
        [
          "cutoff",
          "cutoff"
        ],
        [
          "substance",
          "substance"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "ultra-refined"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌʌltɹəɹiːfaɪnd/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ultrarefined"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ultra",
        "3": "refined"
      },
      "expansion": "ultra- + refined",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "ultra- + refined",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more ultrarefined",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most ultrarefined",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "ultrarefined (comparative more ultrarefined, superlative most ultrarefined)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English 4-syllable words",
        "English adjectives",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms prefixed with ultra-",
        "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1879, The Physician and Surgeon: A Professional Medical Journal, Ann Arbor, Mich, page 130",
          "text": "This doctrine may sound somewhat sacrilegious to the ultrarefined laboratorian, but it is stating conditions exactly as they are and as they are bound to be for generations in everyday medical life, outside of hospitals.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1907, Hubert Howe Bancroft, Some Cities and San Francisco, and Resurgam, The Bancroft Company, pages 20–21",
          "text": "As an instance of modern aesthetic town construction one might cite Denver, a western Yankee metropolis of ultrarefined men and women from down Boston way, breathing a nomenclature never so freely used before among mid-continent mountains, streets, schoolhouses, parks, and gardens all alive with the names of New England poets, philosophers, and statesmen. Scarcely yet turned the half century in age, few such charming cities as Denver have been made with fewer mistakes.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1909, Thomas Joseph Brooks, The March of Intellect: A Review of Man's Achievements That Make for the Advancement of Civilization and a Glimpse of the Future, Broadway Publishing Company, page 127",
          "text": "There never was a time when men of thought did not spring up among the primitive millions. Barbaric instincts are constantly recurring to perplex and shock the sensibilities of the ultrarefined, and primitive specimens of humanity float like waifs on the surface of our civilization till borne beneath the current, or wrecked on its shores. All grades of intellectual development that have ever existed exist today somewhere on the face of the earth.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Extremely refined; sometimes, more refined than a specific purity cutoff for a particular substance."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "refined",
          "refined"
        ],
        [
          "purity",
          "purity"
        ],
        [
          "cutoff",
          "cutoff"
        ],
        [
          "substance",
          "substance"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌʌltɹəɹiːfaɪnd/"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "ultra-refined"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ultrarefined"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-10 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (a644e18 and edd475d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.