unpolished

English

Etymology

From 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: plain, rude, uncivilized; see also Thesaurus:impolite

   Antonyms: civilized, polished, refined

   • 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:

     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.

Derived terms

• unpolishedness

Translations

not polished

• Danish: upoleret
• Latin: impolītus
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: upolert

  Nynorsk: upolert

• Polish: niedopracowany

not refined

• Danish: uraffineret
• Latin: impolītus
• 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.