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unpolished

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un·pol·ished  (n-plsht)
adj.
1. Not polished, as:
a. Not smooth and shiny: unpolished shoes; unpolished gemstones.
b. Not elaborated, perfected, or completed: an unpolished performance.
c. Not having attained a high degree of skill: an unpolished tenor.
2.
a. Lacking good manners, culture, or refinement.
b. Natural and unsophisticated: The service was friendly and unpolished.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.unpolished - not carefully reworked or perfected or made smooth by polishingunpolished - not carefully reworked or perfected or made smooth by polishing; "dull unpolished shoes"
dull - emitting or reflecting very little light; "a dull glow"; "dull silver badly in need of a polish"; "a dull sky"
unrefined - (used of persons and their behavior) not refined; uncouth; "how can a refined girl be drawn to such an unrefined man?"
polished - perfected or made shiny and smooth; "his polished prose"; "in a freshly ironed dress and polished shoes"; "freshly polished silver"
2.unpolished - lacking social polish; "too gauche to leave the room when the conversation became intimate"; "their excellent manners always made me feel gauche"
inelegant - lacking in refinement or grace or good taste

unpolished
adjective
1. crude, rough, unfinished, rude, sketchy, rough and ready, unworked, unfashioned Much of the prose is unpolished.
2. unrefined, unsophisticated, uncouth, vulgar, uncultivated, uncivilized, uncultured an uncouth and unpolished yokel
Translations
unpolished [ˈʌnˈpɒlɪʃt] ADJ
1.sin pulir; [diamond] → en bruto
2. (fig) → tosco, inculto
unpolished
adj
unpoliert; stoneungeschliffen; shoesungeputzt
(fig) person, mannersungeschliffen, ungehobelt; performanceunausgefeilt; style, languageholprig, unausgefeilt
unpolished [ʌnˈpɒlɪʃt] adj (shoes, furniture) → non lucidato/a; (diamond) → grezzo/a; (manners, person) → rozzo/a


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It may be that he swept back into the past, and fell among the blood-drinking, hairy savages of the Age of Unpolished Stone; into the abysses of the Cretaceous Sea; or among the grotesque saurians, the huge reptilian brutes of the Jurassic times.
Knightley thought highly of thembut they must be coarse and unpolished, and very unfit to be the intimates of a girl who wanted only a little more knowledge and elegance to be quite perfect.
After shutting my eyes involuntarily, I opened them, and saw that this luminous agent came from a half globe, unpolished, placed in the roof of the cabin.
 
 
 
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