refined sugar

Questions about refined sugar

What does refined sugar mean?

refined sugar means "a white crystalline carbohydrate used as a sweetener and preservative".

What is another word for refined sugar?

Close synonyms include sugar. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is refined sugar a common word?

refined sugar is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.