| Main Entry: | unpolished |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | rough |
Synonyms: |
raw, unfinished, unsmoothed, unvarnished |
Antonyms: |
polished, shiny, smooth |
| Main Entry: | unpolished |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | vulgar |
Synonyms: |
crude, gauche, graceless, inelegant, rude, tactless, uncivilized, uncouth, unrefined, unsophisticated |
Antonyms: |
civilized, polished, refined, sophisticated |
| Main Entry: | unpolished |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | crude |
Synonyms: |
agrestic, boorish, coarse, discourteous, gauche, ill-mannered, impolite, inelegant, inurbane, rough, rude, rugged, tattered, uncivil, uncivilized, uncouth, uncultured, unfinished, unrefined |
Antonyms: |
polished, sophisticated |
| Main Entry: | awkward |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | clumsy, inelegant |
Synonyms: |
all thumbs, amateurish, artless, blundering, bulky, bumbling, bungling, butterfingers, coarse, floundering, gawky, graceless, green*, having two left feet, having two left hands, incompetent, inept, inexpert, klutzy, lumbering, maladroit, oafish, rude, stiff, stumbling, uncoordinated, uncouth, unfit, ungainly, ungraceful, unhandy, unpolished, unrefined, unskilled, unskillful |
Antonyms: |
adroit, artful, dexterous, elegant, graceful, handy, skillful |
| Main Entry: | blunt |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | straightforward |
Synonyms: |
abrupt, bluff, brief, brusque, candid, crusty, curt, discourteous, explicit, forthright, frank, gruff, impolite, matter-of-fact, outspoken, plain-spoken, rude, short, snappy, snippy, tactless, trenchant, unceremonious, uncivil, unpolished |
Antonyms: |
polite, subtle, tactful |
| Main Entry: | boorish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | crude, awkward |
Synonyms: |
bad-mannered, barbaric, bearish, cantankerous, churlish, cloddish, clodhopping, clownish, clumsy, coarse, countrified, gross*, gruff, ill-bred, ill-mannered, impolite, inurbane, loud, loutish, lowbred, oafish, ornery, out-of-line, out-of-order, provincial, rough, rude, rustic, swinish, tasteless, ugly, uncivilized, uncouth, uncultured, uneducated, ungracious, unpoised, unpolished, unrefined, vulgar |
Antonyms: |
charming, cultured, exciting, polite, refined, sophisticated |
| Main Entry: | churlish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | crude, boorish |
Synonyms: |
base, blunt, brusque, cantankerous*, cloddish, clodhopping, crabbed, crude, crusty, curt, cussed, discourteous, dour, grouchy, gruff, grumpy, harsh, ill-tempered, impolite, loutish, lowbred, mean, miserly, morose, oafish, ornery*, rude, rustic, snippy, sullen, surly, touchy*, ugly, uncivil, uncivilized, uncultured, unmannerly, unneighborly, unpolished, unsociable, vulgar |
Antonyms: |
gentle, nice, pleasant, polite |
| Main Entry: | coarse |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | rough, unrefined |
Synonyms: |
chapped, coarse-grained, crude, grainy, granular, harsh, homespun, impure, inferior, loose, lumpy, mediocre, particulate, poor quality, rough-hewn, rugged, unfinished, unpolished, unprocessed, unpurified |
Antonyms: |
delicate, refined, smooth, soft |
| Main Entry: | country |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | rural, pastoral |
Synonyms: |
Arcadian, agrarian, agrestic, bucolic, campestral, countrified, georgic, homey, out-country, outland, provincial, rustic, uncultured, unpolished, unrefined, unsophisticated |
| Notes: | country really refers to geographical characteristics while nation refers to political and social characteristics; country comes from Latin contrata (terra) 'the landscape in front of one, the landscape lying opposite to the view' and nation is from Latin nation-/natio 'race, class of person' a nation is made up of states - and a country is a nation defined geographically |
Antonyms: |
city, metropolitan, urban |
| Main Entry: | crude |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unrefined, natural |
Synonyms: |
amateurish, callow, coarse, green, harsh, homemade, homespun, immature, impure, in the rough, inexpert, makeshift, outline, prentice, primitive, raw, rough, rough-hewn, rude, rudimentary, rustic, simple, sketchy, thick, undeveloped, unfinished, unformed, ungraded, unmatured, unmilled, unpolished, unprepared, unprocessed, unproficient, unsorted, untaught, untrained, unworked, unwrought |
Antonyms: |
formal, planned, refined, sophisticated, stilted |