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Definition: Unrefined |
UnrefinedAdjective1. Not refined or processed; "unrefined ore"; "crude oil". 2. Used of persons and their behavior; not refined; uncouth; "how can a refined girl be drawn to such an unrefined man?". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "unrefined" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references) |
Synonyms: UnrefinedSynonyms: crude (adj), unprocessed (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: refined (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Vulgarity | Adjective: in bad taste vulgar, unrefined. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Unrefined |
| English words defined with "unrefined": brown sugar ♦ crass, crudely, crudeness, crudity ♦ hard lead ♦ jaggary, jaggery, jagghery ♦ low ♦ Muscovado ♦ primitiveness, primitivism ♦ raw, roughness, rudeness ♦ Sugar mite ♦ Unaccomplished. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "unrefined": BLEACHER, LARD ♦ COCOA-BUTTER-FILTER OPERATOR, Cousin Michael, crude wax ♦ lard maker ♦ petroleum wax, prototyping ♦ rapid prototyping ♦ schnellwachsende Art, slack wax, software prototyping. (references) |
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Clever | She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot. (references; author: Mark Twain) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Unrefined (1993) | |
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Health | However, unrefined plant preparations contain variable levels of the active compound as well as many irrelevant, potentially harmful substances. (references) | |
Trade | El Salvador | This 1992, agreement includes customs standardization, free trade for all products originating in both countries, except raw coffee in all forms (berry, pergamin and bean), wheat flour, refined and unrefined sugar, oil and petroleum by-products. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Unrefined" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unrefined" is used about 43 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% | 43 | 52,181 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "unrefined": unrefined cotton wool ♦ unrefined gas ♦ unrefined oil ♦ unrefined sugar. 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
butter shea unrefined | 9 |
cereal unrefined | 9 |
unrefined coconut oil | 7 |
sugar unrefined | 6 |
unrefined sea salt | 2 |
carbohydrate unrefined | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "unrefined"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Afrikaans | rou (crude, raw, rough, unwrought). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | i parafinuar, brutal (bestial, boorish, brutal, brutish, Randy, rank, rusty, slangy, truculent, unfinished, unhandsome). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | غير مكرر (unrepeatable), غير مهذب (bad form, common, impolite, indecorous, rude, uncivil, unkempt). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | нерафиниран, непречистен, недодялан (coarse, countrified, gawky, heavy, inurbane, loutish, rough-hewn, rugged, rustic, unaccomplished, uncouth, unfinished, unlicked, wild and woolly, zizzi), просташки (blatant, caddish, jazz, jumped-up, loud, low-minded, oafish, ornery, philistine, raffish, rank, rough, rude, savage, swinish, tasteless, underbred, vulgar). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 不登大雅之 (be unpresentable, be unrefined, not appeal to refined taste). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | nevytříbený, nerafinovaný, nekultivovaný (coarse, low-browed, plebeian, uncultivated, uneducated, vulgar). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | ubehandlet (raw), raa (raw, spars, yardarm), noegen (raw). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | snauwerig (crude, raw, rough, unwrought), ruw (abusive, brute, coarse, crude, harsh, rough), ruig (coarse, crude, hairy, raw, rough, shaggy, unwrought), rauw (crude, hoarse, raw, rough, uncooked, unwrought), ongezuiverd (raw), onbewerkt (crude, raw, rough, unwrought), onbehouwen (crude, raw, rough, uneducated, unwrought), grof (abusive, coarse, common, crude, everyday, harsh, raw, rough, unwrought, vulgar), crudus (raw), cru (crude, raw, rough, unwrought), bot (abrupt, addled, blunt, bone, crude, foolish, raw, rough, stupid, unwrought). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Faeroese | ráur (crude, raw, rough, unwrought). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | raaka (brutal, coarse, crude, green, not ripe, raw, rough, rude, unripe, unwrought, yard). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | brut (unwrought), cru (uncooked, unwrought). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | unkultiviert (heathen, uncultivated, uncultivatedly, uncultured, uneducated, unimproved, unimprovedly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ωμός (crude, raw, uncooked), άξεστοσ (boor, boorish, crude, lout, raw, rough, uncouth, unpolished), ακατέργαστος (crude, untreated), ανεπεξέργαστοσ, αδιύλιστοσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | finomítatlan (crude). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | greggio (crude, raw), crudo (crude, piping, raw, rough, unwrought). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 蕪雑 (unpolished), 無骨 (boorish, rustic), 泥臭い (smelling of mud or earth, uncouth), きりきり舞い (a whirl, awkward, awkwardness, clumsy, constrained, corrugated, crude, going round and round, jagged, jerkiness, mashed sweet potato, milled, neat, notched, rushing a person off his feet, serrated, shrill, smart, spruce, stiff, stiff-mannered, stiltedness, strained atmosphere, thin and bony). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ぎ"ちない (awkward, crude, stiff, stiff-mannered), ぶざつ (unpolished), ぶ"つ (boorish, brusque, clumsy, rustic, uncouth), どろくさい (smelling of mud or earth, uncouth). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Papiamen | krudo (crude, raw, rough, unwrought). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | efinedunray não refinado, não purificado, não depurado, em bruto (gross, uncut, unhewn), cru (crude, indigested, rare, raw, rawhide, rough, unbaked, unbleached, unboiled, uncooked). (various references) vulgar (base, broad, churlish, coarse, common, gross, large, low, low-lived, vile, vulgar, vulgarly), ordinar (boorish, caddish, coarse, common, commonplace, customary, frequent, gross, homespun, improper, ordinary, regular, rough, slavish, trivial, usual, vulgar). (various references) неочищенный (impure, raw). (various references) ròic (a rough, a sumptuous but unrefined feast, tear, unrefined feast, va. tear). (various references) nerafinisan, neprečišćen (uncleared). (various references) crudo (crude, green, raw, rough, uncooked, unwrought). (various references) oraffinerad, ohyfsad (caddish, clownish, crude, ill mannered, ill-behaved, low-bred, rude, uncivil, uncouth, unmannerly, unpolished, vulgar), grov i mun. (various references) 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, unpolished, vulgar), ham (crude, green, immature, raw, rude, uncut, unripe), arıtılmamış. (various references) không tao nh ; tục tằn. (various references) anfynud (discourteous, rough, unkind). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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"Unrefined" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Nurofin, unrefereed. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "unrefined" (pronounced u'nrēfī"nd) |
| 4 | -f ī" n d | confined, defined, find, fined, redefined, refined, unconfined, undefined. |
| 3 | -ī" n d | aligned, assigned, behind, bind, blind, combined, consigned, declined, designed, dined, disinclined, enshrined, entwined, grind, hind, inclined, intertwined, kind, lined, maligned, mankind, mind, mined, opined, realigned, reassigned, redesigned, remind, resigned, rind, shined, signed, twined, undermined, unkind, unlined, unsigned, unwind, wind, wined. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-f-i-n-n-r-u" | |
-2 letters: definer, funnier, inurned, neurine, refined, unfired, unfreed. | |
-3 letters: defier, define, denier, dinner, dunner, endrin, endure, enured, fender, ferine, finder, finned, friend, funned, funner, indene, inured, nereid, redfin, refind, refine, refund, reined, ruined, undine, unfree, ureide. | |
-4 letters: defer, diene, diner, eider, ender, endue, ennui, enure, feued, fiend, fined, finer, fired, freed, fried, fundi, indue. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-e-f-i-n-n-r-u" | |
+1 letter: unfriended. | |
+3 letters: underfeeding, unfriendlier, ungentrified, unreinforced. | |
+4 letters: underfinanced, underinflated, unfriendliest. | |
+5 letters: superconfident, unfriendliness. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)55 6E 72 65 66 69 6E 65 64 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..- -. .-. . ..-. .. -. . -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010101 01101110 01110010 01100101 01100110 01101001 01101110 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)U n r e f i n e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0055 006E 0072 0065 0066 0069 006E 0065 0064 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)558084717275807170 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions | 9. Expressions: Internet 10. Translations: Modern 11. Derivations 12. Rhymes | 13. Anagrams 14. Orthography 15. Bibliography |
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