Synonyms for Unpolished

Synonyms for "unpolished" (232 found)

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Closest matches (47)

Noun(1 words)

amateur photography

amateurish angular animal arrested backward barbarian barbaric barbarous bestial boorish broken brutal brutish bumpy cacophonous choppy churlish cloddish clodhopping clownish

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clumsy coarse coarse-grained corrugated countrified country-born country-bredcross grainedcross-grained crude discourteous disrespectful doggerel doric dysphemistic

Adjective(10 words)

artless awkwardest brut clunky coarse crudecrude editdegloss dull dumpier

Verb(1 words)

coarsened

Strong matches (69)

Adjective(17 words)

earthier aromaearthy frowsy frowzier frumpiest frumpish gauche gauchest gawkier gawky graceless grungiest grungy ill-mannered incomplete klutzy matte

embryonic farmerish flatfrom the sticksgothic graceless grainy granulated gross harsh hayseed hick hicky hobnailed homespun horripilant ill-bred ill-mannered impolite improper

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impurein bad tastein embryoin ovoin the roughinconcinnate inconcinnous incorrect indecorous inelegant inequal infelicitous inurbane irregular jolty linsey-woolsey loutish low lowbred lumpen lumpish lumpy neanderthal noncivilized outlandish oversimple pimply pitted plebeian

Noun(3 words)

grunge plonking plunking

Related words (116)

pocky potholed primitive provincial rank reductionistic reductive ripply roughrough-and-readyrough-cast rough-grained rough-hewn roughcast roughhewn rube rude rudimental rudimentary ruffled

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Adjective(21 words)

primitive weaponraggederraw data valuesrawboned roughrough draft languagerough-edged roughen roughest scrappiest scratchier scruffiest uncouthuncrafty artunedited unfinished ungainly ungentle unrevisedunrevised edition

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untactful

Noun(4 words)

raw survey resultsscratchuncoated surfaceuncooked food

Related word relations

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7 relation types

More general

5 entries

appearancelanguage qualitysocial qualitystyle changesurface modification

More specific

10 entries

casualizecrude finishcrudeness deglossingill mannersmattingrough draftrough texturesimplify uncouthness

Collocations

12 entries

unpolish glassunpolish metalunpolish proseunpolish shoesunpolish surfaceunpolish woodunpolished draftunpolished mannersunpolished metalunpolished proseunpolished stoneunpolished surface

Inflections

4 entries

more unpolishedmost unpolishedunpolishes unpolishing

Derivations

4 entries

polish unpolishable unpolisher unpolishing

Antonyms

1 entries

polished

similar

7 entries

dull inelegant raw rough unburnished unrefined unsmooth

Sample sentences

2 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

Who brought this unpolished country bumpkin?

Source: tatoeba (13409316)

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.

Source: wiktionary

Unpolished