What are some opposite words for polished?
Antonyms for polishedpol·ished
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
polished
Fine (Latin finis, end) denotes that which has been brought to a full end, finished. From this root-sense many derived meanings branch out, causing words quite remote from each other to be alike synonyms of fine. That which is truly finished, brought to an ideal end, is excellent of its kind, and beautiful, if a thing that admits of beauty; as, a fine house, fine trees, a fine woman, a fine morning; if a thing that admits of the removal of impurities, it is not finished till these are removed, and hence fine signifies clarified, clear, pure, refined; as, fine gold. That which is finished is apt to be polished, smooth to the touch, minutely exact in outline; hence fine comes to be a synonym for all words like dainty, delicate, exquisite; as, fine manners, a fine touch, fine perceptions. As that which is delicate is apt to be small, by an easy extension of meaning fine becomes a synonym for slender, slight, minute, comminuted; as, a fine thread, fine sand; or for filmy, tenuous, thin; as, a fine lace, fine wire; and as a thin edge is keen, sharp, fine becomes also a synonym for these words; as, a fine point, a fine edge. Compare BEAUTIFUL; MINUTE.
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big, blunt, clumsy, coarse, great, heavy, huge, immense, large, rude, stout, thickSynonyms:
beautiful, clarified, clear, comminuted, dainty, delicate, elegant, excellent, exquisite, fine, gauzy, handsome, keen, minute, nice, pure, refined, sensitive, sharp, slender, slight, small, smooth, splendid, subtile, subtle, tenuous, thin
Princeton's WordNet
polishedadjective
perfected or made shiny and smooth
"his polished prose"; "in a freshly ironed dress and polished shoes"; "freshly polished silver"
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unpolished, unprocessed, naif, raw, naive, unburnished, unfinished, roughpolished, refined, svelte, urbaneadjective
showing a high degree of refinement and the assurance that comes from wide social experience
"his polished manner"; "maintained an urbane tone in his letters"
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unpolished, rough, unfinished, naif, unburnished, raw, unprocessed, naiveSynonyms:
urbane, lissome, neat, lithesome, sylphlike, refined, lissom, slender, processed, slight, svelte, tasteful, slim, graceful, elegant, supple, dressed, milled, lithemilled, polishedadjective
(of grains especially rice) having the husk or outer layers removed
"polished rice"
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rough, unpolished, raw, unburnished, naive, naif, unprocessed, unfinisheddressed, polishedadjective
(of lumber or stone) to trim and smooth
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naive, rough, unburnished, unprocessed, unfinished, raw, unpolished, naifSynonyms:
dolled up, urbane, garmented, appareled, dressed, attired, spruced up, dressed to kill(p), garbed, togged up, dressed-up, spiffed up, refined, habilimented, dressed(p), milled, svelte, robed, dressed to the nines(p)
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
polishedadjective
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burnished, glistening, bright, courtly, elegant refined
How to use polished in a sentence?
One of the things that annoyed me was when it was happening people were like ‘Oh well now he’s selling tickets,' yeah, he had a polished act that he wanted to present to people. And now people are buying tickets to hear him talk about dumb s--- that he has zero interest in even bringing up.
The party that tells women to sit down and shut up is not supposed to be the Democratic Party, … I may not be refined, but I’m real. The polished turds that they continue to shove down our throats as politicians are still turds.
Viewers tune in to see the nitty-gritty. They do n’t expect polished, scripted content. They want to see regular people tackling regular chores. Bonus points for kids and pets who interrupt... just like real life, it’s the same for marketing ; if you let your authentic self shine through, customers will feel a genuine connection.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich von Schlegel:
What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
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