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Unpolished synonyms

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uneven
Not straight or parallel:
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  1. Not straight or parallel:
  2. Not level, smooth, or flat; rough; irregular
  3. Having ill-matched opponents:
unvarnished
Stated or otherwise presented without any effort to soften or disguise; plain:
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  1. Stated or otherwise presented without any effort to soften or disguise; plain:
  2. Plain; simple; unadorned
  3. Not having been coated with varnish (other surface treatment).
unsophisticated
Artless, simple, ingenuous, etc.
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  1. Artless, simple, ingenuous, etc.
  2. Not complex, refined, developed, etc.
  3. (--- Now Rare) Not adulterated; genuine or pure
rude
Rough, violent, or harsh
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  1. Rough, violent, or harsh
  2. Crude, unfinished, or made with limited skill:
  3. Crude or rough in form or workmanship
crude
Undisguised or unadorned; plain:
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  1. Undisguised or unadorned; plain:
  2. In a raw or natural condition, before being prepared for use; not refined or processed
  3. Lacking tact or taste; blunt or offensive:
uncouth
(Archaic) Not known or familiar; strange
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  1. (Archaic) Not known or familiar; strange
  2. Awkward; clumsy; ungainly
  3. Crude; unrefined.
preliminary
Prior to or preparing for the main matter, action, or business; introductory or prefatory.
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  1. Prior to or preparing for the main matter, action, or business; introductory or prefatory.
rough
Coarse or shaggy to the touch:
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  1. Coarse or shaggy to the touch:
  2. Lacking polish or finesse:
  3. Not perfected, completed, or fully detailed:
sketchy
Missing important points or lacking in detail; not thorough:
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  1. Missing important points or lacking in detail; not thorough:
  2. Resembling a sketch; drawn with little detail:
  3. Lacking completeness; rough; inadequate
tentative
Indicating a lack of confidence or certainty; hesitant:
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  1. Indicating a lack of confidence or certainty; hesitant:
  2. Not fully worked out, concluded, or agreed on; provisional:
  3. Made, done, proposed, etc. experimentally or provisionally; not definite or final
unfinished
Having no finish, or final coat, as of paint
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  1. Having no finish, or final coat, as of paint
  2. Not having received special processing, such as dyeing or varnishing:
  3. Not finished; not completed or perfected; incomplete
crude
Being in an unrefined or natural state:
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  1. Being in an unrefined or natural state:
  2. Lacking tact or taste; blunt or offensive:
  3. In a raw or natural condition, before being prepared for use; not refined or processed
primitive
Regarded as having changed little in evolutionary history. Not in scientific use:
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  1. Regarded as having changed little in evolutionary history. Not in scientific use:
  2. Not resulting from conscious thought or deliberation; unconscious or instinctual:
  3. Characterized by simplicity or crudity; unsophisticated:
raw
Not finished, covered, or coated:
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  1. Not finished, covered, or coated:
  2. Being in a natural condition; not processed or refined:
  3. Inexperienced or untrained:
rough
Lacking polish or finesse:
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  1. Lacking polish or finesse:
  2. Regarded as being risky, dangerous, offensive, etc., often as a result of lacking in conventional social controls
  3. Coarse, as texture, cloth, food, etc.
rude
Crude or rough in form or workmanship
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  1. Crude or rough in form or workmanship
  2. Lacking refinement, culture, or elegance; uncouth, boorish, coarse, vulgar, etc.
  3. In a natural, raw state:
discourteous
Impolite; lacking consideration for others
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  1. Impolite; lacking consideration for others
  2. Exhibiting no courtesy; rude.
  3. Not courteous; impolite; rude; ill-mannered
disrespectful
Having or exhibiting a lack of respect; rude and discourteous.
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  1. Having or exhibiting a lack of respect; rude and discourteous.
ill-bred
(Of animals) of bad breed
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  1. (Of animals) of bad breed
  2. Not thoroughbred; underbred. Used of animals.
  3. Badly brought up; lacking good manners; rude; impolite
ill-mannered
Lacking or indicating a lack of good manners; rude.
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  1. Lacking or indicating a lack of good manners; rude.
  2. Having or showing bad manners; rude; impolite
  3. Of or pertaining to having bad manners; impolite. (See also: bad-mannered)
impolite
Not polite; ill-mannered; discourteous
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  1. Not polite; ill-mannered; discourteous
rude
Barbarous or ignorant
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  1. Barbarous or ignorant
  2. Rough, violent, or harsh
  3. Ill-mannered, discourteous, or insulting:
uncivil
(Archaic) Uncivilized.
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  1. (Archaic) Uncivilized.
  2. Not civilized; savage; barbarous; uncivilized.
  3. Discourteous; rude:
ungracious
Unpleasant; unattractive
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  1. Unpleasant; unattractive
  2. Not pleasant or acceptable; unattractive.
  3. Not gracious or affable; rude; discourteous; impolite
unmannerly
Not mannerly.
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  1. Not mannerly.
  2. Having or showing poor manners; rude; discourteous
  3. Ill-mannered; rude.
barbarian
Cruel; barbarous
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  1. Cruel; barbarous
  2. Of or like a barbarian
  3. Uncivilized; crude
barbaric
Brutal or cruel:
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  1. Brutal or cruel:
  2. Of, like, or characteristic of barbarians; uncivilized; primitive
  3. Marked by crudeness or lack of sophistication:
boorish
Like or characteristic of a boor; rude; awkward; ill-mannered
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  1. Like or characteristic of a boor; rude; awkward; ill-mannered
  2. Resembling or characteristic of a boor; rude and clumsy in behavior.
  3. Behaving as a boor; rough in manners; rude; uncultured.
churlish
(Of soil) difficult to till, lacking pliancy; unmanageable
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  1. (Of soil) difficult to till, lacking pliancy; unmanageable
  2. Difficult to work with, such as soil; intractable.
  3. Rude, surly, ungracious
coarse
Not fine or delicate in texture, structure, form, etc.; rough; harsh
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  1. Not fine or delicate in texture, structure, form, etc.; rough; harsh
  2. Lacking in delicacy or refinement:
  3. Rough, especially to the touch:
crass
Grossly stupid, dull, or obtuse
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  1. Grossly stupid, dull, or obtuse
  2. Tasteless, insensitive, and coarse
  3. So crude and unrefined as to be lacking in discrimination and sensibility.
crude
Undisguised or unadorned; plain:
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  1. Undisguised or unadorned; plain:
  2. In a raw or natural condition, before being prepared for use; not refined or processed
  3. Lacking tact or taste; blunt or offensive:
gross
So obvious or conspicuous as to cause or heighten offense:
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  1. So obvious or conspicuous as to cause or heighten offense:
  2. On a large scale; not fine or detailed:
  3. Brutishly coarse, as in behavior; crude:
ill-bred
Badly brought up; lacking good manners; rude; impolite
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  1. Badly brought up; lacking good manners; rude; impolite
  2. (Of animals) of bad breed
  3. Not thoroughbred; underbred. Used of animals.
indelicate
Slightly at odds with established standards of propriety; somewhat improper, offensive, or coarse:
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  1. Slightly at odds with established standards of propriety; somewhat improper, offensive, or coarse:
  2. Coarse or tasteless.
  3. Not delicate; coarse; crude; rough; esp., lacking, or offensive to, propriety or modesty; gross
philistine
Relating to or having the attitudes of a philistine:
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  1. Relating to or having the attitudes of a philistine:
  2. Of the ancient Philistines or their culture
  3. Smugly conventional and lacking in culture
rough
Not perfected, completed, or fully detailed:
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  1. Not perfected, completed, or fully detailed:
  2. Coarse or shaggy to the touch:
  3. Lacking polish or finesse:
rude
Crude or rough in form or workmanship
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  1. Crude or rough in form or workmanship
  2. Lacking refinement, culture, or elegance; uncouth, boorish, coarse, vulgar, etc.
  3. Rough, violent, or harsh
tasteless
Lacking flavor; insipid.
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  1. Lacking flavor; insipid.
  2. Lacking good taste or showing poor taste
  3. Without taste or flavor; flat; insipid
uncivilized
Crude, barbarous, wild, uncultured.
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  1. Crude, barbarous, wild, uncultured.
  2. Used to describe behaviours deemed savage or inappropriate.
  3. Used to describe people who display a marked lack of manners as defined by a given culture.
uncouth
(Archaic) Not known or familiar; strange
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  1. (Archaic) Not known or familiar; strange
  2. Awkward; clumsy; ungainly
  3. Uncultured; crude; boorish
uncultivated
Inadequately educated; lacking art or knowledge; unrefined; uncultured; uncivilized.
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  1. Inadequately educated; lacking art or knowledge; unrefined; uncultured; uncivilized.
  2. Not cultivated by standard agricultural methods:
  3. Not cultivated by agricultural methods; not prepared for cultivation.
uncultured
Not cultured or cultivated:
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  1. Not cultured or cultivated:
  2. Not cultured or civilized; lacking in delicacy or refinement.
vulgar
Spoken by or expressed in language spoken by the common people; vernacular:
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  1. Spoken by or expressed in language spoken by the common people; vernacular:
  2. Offensively excessive in self-display or expenditure; ostentatious:
  3. Characterized by a lack of culture, refinement, taste, restraint, sensitivity, etc.; coarse; crude; boorish
artless
Lacking art, knowledge, or skill; uncultured and ignorant.
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  1. Lacking art, knowledge, or skill; uncultured and ignorant.
  2. Free of artificiality; natural:
  3. Without artificiality; simple; natural
homely
Not elegant or polished; crude
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  1. Not elegant or polished; crude
  2. Characteristic of or suitable for home or home life; simple and unpretentious or plain and everyday
  3. Of a simple or unpretentious nature; plain:
homespun
(Of fabric) Woven in the home.
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  1. (Of fabric) Woven in the home.
  2. Simple and homely; unpretentious:
  3. (Of clothing etc) Made from homespun fabric.
natural
Related genetically:
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  1. Related genetically:
  2. Conforming to the usual or ordinary course of nature:
  3. (Biology) Not produced or changed artificially; not conditioned:
rustic
Of, relating to, or typical of country life or country people.
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  1. Of, relating to, or typical of country life or country people.
  2. Made of unfinished or roughly finished wood:
  3. Charmingly simple or unsophisticated in a manner considered typical of country living.
unadorned
Without adornment or embellishment; simple or plain.
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  1. Without adornment or embellishment; simple or plain.
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  • A monochrome loses much of its attractiveness when the color merges into a metal rim, or when the interior of a vase is covered with crude unpolished paste.

  • Their style, we are told, was unpolished and arid in the extreme, while the argument was lucid and impartial.

  • The bishop and clergy choose a suitable spot, and erect twelve large stones unwrought and unpolished around the central rock of the altar, and on these the walls of the church are laid.

  • Gilbert Walmesley, registrar of the ecclesiastical court of the diocese, a man of distinguished parts, learning and know ledge of the world, did himself honour by patronizing the young adventurer, whose repulsive person, unpolished manners and squalid garb moved many of the petty aristocracy of the neighbourhood to laughter or disgust.

  • He was a tribune of the people, associated unflinchingly not merel y with the unpopular but with the unpolished; always carrying about him not merely a certain Roman look, but a patrician air.

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