Unpolished

Definition: Unpolished

Unpolished

Adjective

1. Not carefully reworked or perfected or made smooth by polishing; "dull unpolished shoes".

2. Lacking social polish; "too gauche to leave the room when the conversation became intimate"; "their excellent manners always may be feel gauche".

Date "unpolished" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

Synonyms: Unpolished

Synonyms: gauche (adj), graceless (adj). (additional references)

Antonym: polished (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Discourtesy	Adjective: discourteous, uncourteous; uncourtly; ill-bred, ill-mannered, ill-behaved, ill-conditioned; unbred; unmannerly, unmannered; impolite, unpolite; unpolished, uncivilized, ungenteel; ungentleman-like, ungentlemanly; unladylike; blackguard; vulgar; dedecorous; foul-mouthed foul-spoken; abusive.
Inelegance	Adjective: inelegant, graceless, ungraceful; harsh, abrupt; dry, stiff, cramped, formal, guinde; forced, labored; artificial, mannered, ponderous; awkward, uncourtly, unpolished; turgid; affected, euphuistic; barbarous, uncouth, grotesque, rude, crude, halting; offensive to ears polite.
Nonpreparation	Adjective: unprepared; without preparation; incomplete; rudimental, embryonic, abortive; immature, unripe, kachcha, raw, green, crude; coarse; rough cast, rough hewn; in the rough; unhewn, unformed, unfashioned, unwrought, unlabored, unblown, uncooked, unboiled, unconcocted, unpolished.
Roughness	Adjective: rough, uneven, scabrous, scaly,knotted; rugged, rugose, rugous; knurly; asperous, crisp, salebrous, gnarled, unpolished, unsmooth, roughhewn; craggy, cragged; crankling, scraggy; prickly; (sharp); arborescent; leafy, well-wooded; feathery; plumose, plumigerous; laciniate, laciniform, laciniose; pappose; pileous, pilose; trichogenous, trichoid; tufted, fimbriated, hairy, ciliated, filamentous, hirsute; crinose, crinite; bushy, hispid, villous, pappous, bearded, pilous, shaggy, shagged; fringed, befringed; setous, setose, setaceous; "like quills upon the fretful porcupine"; rough as a nutmeg grater, rough as a bear.
Vulgarity	Unkempt. uncombed, untamed, unlicked, unpolished, uncouth; plebeian; incondite; heavy, rude, awkward; homely, homespun, home bred; provincial, countrified, rustic; boorish, clownish; savage, brutish, blackguard, rowdy, snobbish; barbarous, barbaric; Gothic,
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Unpolished

English words defined with "unpolished": brown rice ♦ Clitocybe subconnexa, crudeness ♦ In the rough, Incondite, Inurbane, Inurbanity ♦ rice, roughness, Rustic work ♦ Uplandish. (references)

Specialty definitions using "unpolished": Silver Trumpet. (references)

Domain	Title
Music	Unpolished (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Author	Quotation
Charles Buxton	Self-laudation abounds among the unpolished, but nothing can stamp a man more sharply as ill-bred.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Trade	Botswana	Export controls are however assessed on the following restricted items, which require export permits: radioactive materials, unpolished diamonds, gold, wildlife and wildlife trophies, plants, hides and skins, and agricultural products. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Unpolished" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unpolished" is used about 25 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	25	69,787

Expression using "unpolished": unpolished stone. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "unpolished"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Arabic		‏غير مصقول (clumsiness, clumsy, coarse, inelegant, robust, unfinished, unvarnished), ‏غير لامع. (various references)

Bulgarian		неполиран (mat), неизгладен (coarse), неизискан (unfashionable). (various references)

Chinese		未磨光. (various references)

Danish		upoleret ris (unpolished rice, white rice). (various references)

Dutch		ongepolijste rijst (unpolished rice, white rice), geslepen rijst (milled rice, unpolished rice, white rice). (various references)

Finnish		hiomaton (crude, uncut, unground), epähieno (discourteous, ill-mannered, rude, ungentlemanly, unladylike). (various references)

French		non poli, non ciré, non astiqué. (various references)

German		ungeschliffen (blunt, ignorant, inelegant, uncouth, uncut, undressed, uneducated), unqualifiziert (incompetent, unpolishedly, unqualified, unqualifiedly, unrefined, unrefinedly, unskilled). (various references)

Greek		άξεστοσ (boor, boorish, crude, lout, raw, rough, uncouth, unrefined), αγυάλιστοσ, αλουστράριστοσ. (various references)

Italian		riso non levigato (unpolished rice, white rice), riso non brillato (unpolished rice, white rice), riso fino (unpolished rice, white rice). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		蕪雑 (unrefined), 野性 (rough, uncouth, wild), �"�硬 (crude, immature). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ぶざつ (unrefined), せい�"う (affection, bull's eye, character and conduct, crude, delicate, elaborate, exquisite, hit, immature, mark, point, sexual intercourse, steel manufacture, success, western suburb), やせい (rough, uncouth, wild). (various references)

Pig Latin		olishedunpay

Portuguese		rude (abrupt, backwoods, barbaric, boisterous, bumbling, caveman, cloddish, coarse, crude, discourteous, displeasing, disrespectful, gothic, gruff, harsh, homespun, husky, incondite, knockabout, larrikin, low-lived, point-blank, raw, rough, rude, rugged, rumbustious, rustic, snippy, tart, tough, unaffable, uncivil, uncouth, uneducated, ungracious, unkind, unnurtured, untaught, upstage), por polir, não polido (rugged), não envernizado (unvarnished), não engraxado, não encerado, inculto (barbaric, bumbling, caveman, cloddish, devastated, fallow, larrikin, low-brow, low-lived, rough, rustic, uncouth, uncultivated, uncultured, unenlightened, unformed, uninformed, unlaboured, unlearned, unposted, unreclaimed, unschooled, untutored, waste, wild). (various references)

Romanian		nelustruit (unvarnished), necioplit (barbarous, boorish, churl, churlish, coarse, loutish, oafish, rough, unaccomplished, uncouth, unmannerly, with the bark on), neşlefuit (rough diamond). (various references)

Russian		неотполированный. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		neuglačan, neuglađen (home-bred). (various references)

Spanish		burdo (coarse), áspero (abrupt, acid, brusque, coarse, crotchety, disagreeable, grating, hackly, hard, harsh, jagged, rasping, rough, rugged, scraggy, severe, sharp, sour, strict, tart). (various references)

Swedish		ohyfsad (caddish, clownish, crude, ill mannered, ill-behaved, low-bred, rude, uncivil, uncouth, unmannerly, unrefined, vulgar). (various references)

Turkish		terbiyesiz (bad, blackguard, blackguardly, broad, caddish, churlish, coarse, coarse grained, dirty, graceless, ill bred, ill mannered, immodest, immoral, impertinent, impolite, improper, impudent, indelicate, inelegant, insolent, mannerless, naughty, ribald, risky, risque, rude, scabrous, shameless, uncultured, underbred, undressed, unmannerly), kaba (abrupt, barbarous, base, bearish, boorish, brusque, brutal, brutish, churlish, clodhopping, coarse, coarse grained, common, crass, crude, discourteous, disobliging, disrespectful, doric, foul, graceless, gross, gruff, gutter, hard-hitting, harsh, heavy, hobnailed, hoggish, ill bred, ill mannered, impolite, incondite, indelicate, inelegant, loud, loutish, offhand, offhanded, ornery, puffy, rank, rough, rough-hewn, roughly, rude, rugged, rustic, short-spoken, splay, swinish, tactless, unceremonious, unchivalrous, uncivil, uncomplaisant, uncomplimentary, uncouth, underbred, unfinished, ungainly, ungalant, ungentle, ungentlemanlike, ungentlemanly, ungraceful, ungracious, unmannerly, unparliamentary, unrefined, vulgar), cilasız (rough, unfinished, unvarnished), cilalanmamış, boyanmamış (uncolored, uncoloured, unpainted). (various references)

Vietnamese		không bóng (lustreless). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"Unpolished" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: umpolished, unboyish, unpolish. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-e-h-i-l-n-o-p-s-u"
	-1 letter: unspoiled.
	-2 letters: delusion, depolish, dolphins, euploids, insouled, pinholes, polished, punished, siphoned, sphenoid, sulphide, sulphone, unpoised, unsoiled.
	-3 letters: despoil, diploes, dipoles, dolphin, elusion, epsilon, euploid, heinous, hideous, hoidens, holdups, hondles, indoles, lineups, loudens, loudish, lupines, nodules, phenols, phonied, phonies, pileous, pinhole, pinoles, plenish, pulsion, spindle, spinule, splined, spoiled, sulphid, unhoped, unipods, unoiled, unpiled, unpiles.
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