BUFFOONISH Antonyms

• having or expressing dignity; especially formality or stateliness in bearing or appearance

• having or showing self-esteem

• refined and tasteful in appearance or behavior or style

• suggesting taste, ease, and wealth

• displaying effortless beauty and simplicity in movement or execution

• having the capacity for thought and reason especially to a high degree

• possessing sound knowledge

• exercising or showing good judgment

• endowed with the capacity to reason

• characteristic of maturity

• having reached full natural growth or development

• fully developed or matured and ready to be eaten or used

• (of birds) having developed feathers or plumage; often used in combination

• fully considered and perfected

• develop and reach maturity; undergo maturation

• develop and work out fully in one's mind

• become due for repayment

• cause to ripen or develop fully

• grow old or older

• cause to ripen and discharge pus

• perfected or made shiny and smooth

• showing a high degree of refinement and the assurance that comes from wide social experience

• (of grains especially rice) having the husk or outer layers removed

• (of lumber or stone) to trim and smooth

• (used of persons and their behavior) cultivated and genteel

• freed from impurities by processing

• showing a high degree of refinement and the assurance that comes from wide social experience

• precise to a fine degree

• suggesting taste, ease, and wealth

• concerned with work or important matters rather than play or trivialities

• completely lacking in playfulness

• of great consequence

• causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm

• appealing to the mind

• requiring effort or concentration; complex and not easy to answer or solve

• having or appealing to those having worldly knowledge and refinement and savoir-faire

• ahead in development; complex or intricate

• intellectually appealing