polished
[pol-isht]
- made smooth and glossy: a figurine of polished mahogany.
- naturally smooth and glossy: polished pebbles on the beach.
- refined, cultured, or elegant: a polished manner.
- flawless; skillful; excellent: a polished conversationalist.
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Origin of polished
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Related Words
unfinished, raw, unvarnished, crude, gauche, graceless, inelegant, rude, tactless, uncivilized, uncouth, unrefined, unsophisticated, boorish, coarse, discourteous, ill-mannered, impolite, rough, ruggedExamples from the Web for unpolished
Contemporary Examples
The likely scenario is that Amiigo's early backers will end up with a unpolished version and they'll have train the software AI.
The beautiful thing about creativity at that age is it is brutal and unpolished, and not virtual.
Historical Examples
I said so, in a most unpolished phrase: I called myself a spy.
The Daltons, Volume II (of II)Charles James Lever
Down the edges are rows of small, unpolished pearls, running into points.
An OutcastF. Colburn Adams
He was in some ways rough-hewn and unpolished, but he was a great man.
Victorian WorthiesGeorge Henry Blore
The walls were divided into panels of polished and unpolished granite.
Mizora: A ProphecyMary E. Bradley
The pile was ordered to be built of rough wood, unpolished by the ax.
Museum of AntiquityL. W. Yaggy
polished
- accomplisheda polished actor
- impeccably or professionally donea polished performance
- (of rice) having had the outer husk removed by milling
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Word Origin and History for unpolished
polished
adj.
late 14c., "made smooth;" early 15c., "elegant;" past participle adjective from polish (v.).
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