Meanings
comparative more unpolished · superlative most unpolished
- Deprived of polish.
- Not refined in manners or style
Vovchsafe to grace these rude vnpolish'd rymes, / Which long (dear friend) haue slept in sable night, / And, come abroad now in these glorious tymes, / Can hardly brook the purenes of the light.
1594, Michael Drayton, “[Sonnets.] To the Deere Chyld of the Muses, and His Euer Kind Mecænas, Ma. Anthony Cooke, Esquire.”, in Cyril Brett, editor, Minor Poems of Michael Drayton, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Clarendon Press, published 1907, →OCLC, page 1Synonyms: plain, rude, uncivilized, aweless, improper, bad-mannered, barbaric, bold · Antonyms: civilized, polished, refined
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveNot refined in manners or style
More synonyms by meaning
adjectivenot carefully reworked or perfected or made smooth by polishing
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*né
- Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
- Proto-Germanic*un-
- Proto-West Germanic*un-
- Old Englishun-
- Middle Englishun-
- Englishun-
- Englishpolished
- Englishunpolished
Translations
Danish upoleret, uraffineret
- upoleretnot polished
- uraffineretnot refined
Latin impolītus, impolītus
- impolītusnot polished
- impolītusnot refined
Norwegian Bokmål upolert, upolert
- upolertnot polished
- upolertnot refined
Polish niedopracowany
- niedopracowanynot polished
Cite this entry
unpolished. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unpolished
“unpolished.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unpolished. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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