unpolished
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Etymology
Adjective
unpolished (comparative more unpolished, superlative most unpolished)
- Not polished; not brought to a polish.
- Deprived of polish.
- 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
Translations
not polished
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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.
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