unpolished

English

Etymology

un- +‎ polished

Adjective

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

   Synonyms: uncivilized, rude, plain

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:impolite

Antonyms

• polished
• refined
• civilized

Derived terms

• unpolishedness

Translations

not polished

• Danish: upoleret
• Latin: impolītus
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• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: upolert

  Nynorsk: upolert

not refined

• Danish: uraffineret
• Latin: impolītus
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• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: upolert

  Nynorsk: upolert

References

• “unpolished”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “unpolished”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.