unpolished

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adjective

Not polished; not brought to a polish.

UncommonScrabble 16

Meanings

adjectiveunpolished (comparative more unpolished, superlative most unpolished)

comparative more unpolished · superlative most unpolished

  1. Not polished; not brought to a polish.
  2. Deprived of polish.
  3. 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 1

    Synonyms: plain, rude, uncivilized, aweless, improper, bad-mannered, barbaric, bold · Antonyms: civilized, polished, refined

Synonyms & antonyms

More synonyms by meaning

adjectivenot carefully reworked or perfected or made smooth by polishing

Opposite

adjectivelacking social polish

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*né
  2. Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
  3. Proto-Germanic*un-
  4. Proto-West Germanic*un-
  5. Old Englishun-
  6. Middle Englishun-
  7. Englishun-
  8. Englishpolished
  9. Englishunpolished

From un- + polished.

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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
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Chicago

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