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Princeton's WordNet

  1. unpolishedadjective

    not carefully reworked or perfected or made smooth by polishing

    "dull unpolished shoes"

  2. gauche, graceless, unpolishedadjective

    lacking social polish

    "too gauche to leave the room when the conversation became intimate"; "their excellent manners always made me feel gauche"

Wiktionary

  1. unpolishedadjective

    Not polished; not brought to a polish.

  2. unpolishedadjective

    Deprived of polish.

  3. unpolishedadjective

    Not refined in manners; uncivilized; rude; plain.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Unpolishedadjective

    Palladio, having noted in an old arch at Verona, some part of the materials cut in fine forms, and some unpolished, doth conclude, that the antients did leave the outward face of their marbles, or free-stone, without any sculpture, till they were laid in the body of the building. Henry Wotton.

    He affirms it to have been the antient custom of all the Greeks, to set up unpolished stones instead of images, to the honour of the gods. Edward Stillingfleet.

    Finding new words,
    Such as of old wise bards employ’d to make
    Unpolish’d men their wild retreats forsake. Edmund Waller.

    Those first unpolish’d matrons, big and bold,
    Gave suck to infants of gigantick mould. Dryden.

ChatGPT

  1. unpolished

    Unpolished generally refers to something that is not refined, improved, or free from imperfections. This could relate to a variety of objects or situations such as a rough stone that has not been smoothed, a person's lack of manners or social refinement, or even to an incomplete or rudimentary version of work, such as an article or a piece of music.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of unpolished in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of unpolished in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of unpolished in a Sentence

  1. Dejan Stojanovic:

    Nature is an outcry, unpolished truth; the art—a euphemism—tamed wilderness.

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