unpolished
unpolished adjective: not polished; not brought to a polish.
Adjective
unpolished (comparative more unpolished, superlative most unpolished)
- Not polished; not brought to a polish.
- Deprived of polish.
- Not refined in manners or style
- 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.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...
- Synonyms:
- plain, rude, uncivilized, aweless, improper, bad-mannered, barbaric, bold, bumptious, crude
unpolished meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
unpolished in Tamil
- கரட்டுக்கல், குருடு
unpolished in Urdu
- چبلا, غیرمہذب
unpolished in Bengali
- unpolished, unrefined, rude, coarse
- অমার্জিত omarjito
unpolished in Malayalam
- unfinished, unvarnished, untreated
- മിനുക്കാത്ത, തേച്ചുമിനുക്കാത്ത, പുറം പൂച്ചില്ലാത്ത, മിനുക്കമില്ലാത്ത, മിനുക്കുപണി ചെയ്യാത്ത, വാർണിഷിടാത്ത
- unrefined, unsophisticated, uncultured
- പരിഷ്കാരം കുറഞ്ഞ, സഭ്യാചാരമല്ലാത്ത, കിരാത, പ്രാകൃത, പരിഷ്കാരമില്ലാത്ത, നയശീലമില്ലാത്ത
- rough, slipshod, crude
- തേച്ചുമിനുക്കാത്ത, അനിപുണമായ, അനവധാനമായ, അപരിഷ്കതമായ, അശ്രദ്ധമായ, ഒഴുക്കൻമട്ടിലുള്ള
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Forms of unpolished
| comparative | more unpolished |
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| superlative | most unpolished |
Origin of unpolished
From un- + polished.
Words formed from unpolished
Questions about unpolished
- What does unpolished mean?
- Unpolished means not polished; not brought to a polish.
- What is unpolished in Tamil?
- Unpolished in Tamil is கரட்டுக்கல், குருடு. See Unpolished meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is unpolished?
- Unpolished is an adjective.
Words near unpolished in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: unpolished (page history and authors); unpolished (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); unpolished (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); অমার্জিত (Bengali) (page history and authors); unpolished (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); unpolished (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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