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unpolished
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | clumsy, uncultivated |
| Synonyms: | awkward, barbaric, boorish, cheap, clownish, coarse, crass, crude, discourteous, disgracious, gawky, graceless, gross, heavy-handed, ill-bred, ill-mannered, impertinent, impolite, inelegant, loud, loud-mouthed, loutish, oafish, raunchy, raw, rough, rude, rustic, strange, tacky*, uncalled-for, uncivil, uncivilized, ungainly, ungenteel, ungentlemanly, unpolished, unrefined, unseemly, vulgar |
| Antonyms: | agile, couth, cultivated, polished, refined, sophisticated |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | unkempt |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | shabby, sloppy |
| Synonyms: | bedraggled, coarse, crude, dilapidated, dirty, disarranged, disarrayed, disheveled, disordered, grubby, grungy, messed up, messy, mussed up, neglected, rough, rumpled, scruffy, shaggy, slipshod, slovenly, tousled, unclean, uncombed, unfastidious, ungroomed, unimproved, unneat, unpolished, untidy, vulgar |
| Antonyms: | kempt, neat, tidy, trim |
| Main Entry: | unrefined |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | coarse |
| Synonyms: | barbaric, boorish, brutish, crass, crude, earthy, gross, inelegant, primitive, raw, rough, rude, troglodytic, uncivilized, uncouth, uncultivated, uncultured, unpolished, unsophisticated, vulgar |
| Antonyms: | cultured, refined |
| Main Entry: | unrefined |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | vulgar |
| Synonyms: | coarse, crude, rude, uncouth, unpolished |
| Main Entry: | uncultured |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | crude |
| Synonyms: | boorish, coarse, crass, ignorant, philistine, rude, uncivilized, uncouth, unlettered, unpolished, unrefined, vulgar |
| Antonyms: | cultured |
| Main Entry: | bumbling |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unskillful |
| Synonyms: | awkward, blundering, bungling, butterfingered, clumsy, gauche, graceless, inept, maladroit, unpolished |
| Main Entry: | grainy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | coarse |
| Synonyms: | chapped, coarse-grained, crude, granular, gritty, harsh, homespun, impure, inferior, loose, lumpy, mediocre, particulate, poor quality, rough, rough-hewn, rugged, unfinished, unpolished, unprocessed, unpurified |
| Main Entry: | granular |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | coarse |
| Synonyms: | chapped, coarse-grained, crude, grainy, gritty, harsh, homespun, impure, inferior, loose, lumpy, mediocre, particulate, poor quality, rough, rough-hewn, rugged, unfinished, unpolished, unprocessed, unpurified |
| Main Entry: | klutzy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | awkward |
| Synonyms: | all thumbs, amateurish, artless, blundering, bulky, bumbling, bungling, butterfingers, clumsy, coarse, floundering, gawky, graceless, green*, having two left feet, having two left hands, incompetent, inept, inexpert, lumbering, lumpish, maladroit, oafish, rude, stiff, stumbling, uncoordinated, uncouth, unfit, ungainly, ungraceful, unhandy, unpolished, unrefined, unskilled, unskillful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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