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say it: PAH-lisht
polished is an adjective meaning "perfected or made shiny and smooth". It is pronounced /ˈpɑlɪʃt/ — PAH-lisht. It carries 4 recorded senses.
perfected or made shiny and smooth
“his polished prose”
“in a freshly ironed dress and polished shoes”
“freshly polished silver”
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”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for polished come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.