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polished

adj
/ˈpɑlɪʃt/US/ˈpɒlɪʃt/UK

Definitions

  1. Made smooth or shiny by polishing.

    • polished shoes

  2. Refined, elegant.

    • a polished performance
    • "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."

  3. simple past and past participle of polish

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at polished. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01polished02refined03vulgarity04obscene05lewd06rude07civility08polite

A definitional loop anchored at polished. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at polished

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA