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unpolished
adj. not carefully reworked or perfected or made smooth by polishing; "dull unpolished shoes"
agrestic
adj. (of behavior) rustic and uncouth; "the agrestic behavior of a country boy"
gauche, graceless
adj. lacking social polish; "too gauche to leave the room when the conversation became intimate"; "their excellent manners always made me feel gauche"
Fuzzynyms (59)
unrefined
adj. (used of persons and their behavior) not refined; uncouth; "how can a refined girl be drawn to such an unrefined man?"
tactless, untactful
adj. lacking or showing a lack of what is fitting and considerate in dealing with others; "in the circumstances it was tactless to ask her age"
thoughtless
adj. showing lack of careful thought; "the debate turned into thoughtless bickering"
heedless, unthinking, thoughtless, uncaring
adj. without care or thought for others; "the thoughtless saying of a great princess on being informed that the people had no bread; `Let them eat cake'"
tasteless, in poor taste
adj. lacking aesthetic or social taste
common, crude, vulgar, coarse
adj. lacking refinement or cultivation or taste; "he had coarse manners but a first-rate mind"; "behavior that branded him as common"; "an untutored and uncouth human being"; "an uncouth soldier--a real tough guy"; "appealing to the vulgar taste for violence"; "the vulgar display of the newly rich"
rude, underbred, ill-bred, bounderish, lowbred, uncouth
adj. (of persons) lacking in refinement or grace
awkward, inept, clumsy, inapt, ill-chosen
adj. not elegant or graceful in expression; "an awkward prose style"; "a clumsy apology"; "his cumbersome writing style"; "if the rumor is true, can anything be more inept than to repeat it now?"
flash, gaudy, brassy, vulgar, flashy, cheap, loud, meretricious, tawdry, garish, gimcrack, tacky, trashy
adj. tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments"
crass
adj. (of persons) so unrefined as to be lacking in discrimination and sensibility
lower-class, low-class
adj. occupying the lowest socioeconomic position in a society
impolite
adj. not polite
indelicate
adj. in violation of good taste even verging on the indecent; "an indelicate remark"; "an off-color joke"
awkward
adj. lacking grace or skill in manner or movement or performance; "an awkward dancer"; "an awkward gesture"; "too awkward with a needle to make her own clothes"; "his clumsy fingers produced an awkward knot"
bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, ham-fisted, ham-handed, handless, heavy-handed, left-handed
adj. lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands; "a bumbling mechanic"; "a bungling performance"; "ham-handed governmental interference"; "could scarcely empty a scuttle of ashes, so handless was the poor creature"- Mary H. Vorse
clumsy, gawky, ungainly, unwieldy
adj. lacking grace in movement or posture; "a gawky lad with long ungainly legs"; "clumsy fingers"; "what an ungainly creature a giraffe is"; "heaved his unwieldy figure out of his chair"
artless, unsophisticated, unworldly
adj. not wise in the ways of the world; "either too unsophisticated or too honest to promise more than he could deliver"; "this helplessly unworldly woman"- Kate O'Brien
Synonyms (13)
rough
adj. having or caused by an irregular surface; "trees with rough bark"; "rough ground"; "rough skin"; "rough blankets"; "his unsmooth face"
dull
adj. emitting or reflecting very little light; "a dull glow"; "dull silver badly in need of a polish"; "a dull sky"
unrefined
adj. (used of persons and their behavior) not refined; uncouth; "how can a refined girl be drawn to such an unrefined man?"
clumsy, gawky, ungainly, unwieldy
adj. lacking grace in movement or posture; "a gawky lad with long ungainly legs"; "clumsy fingers"; "what an ungainly creature a giraffe is"; "heaved his unwieldy figure out of his chair"
strained, labored, laboured, graceless
adj. lacking natural ease; "a labored style of debating"
ungraceful, wooden
adj. lacking grace; clumsy; "a graceless production of the play"; "his stature low...his bearing ungraceful"- Sir Walter Scott
Antonyms (4)
polished
adj. perfected or made shiny and smooth; "his polished prose"; "in a freshly ironed dress and polished shoes"; "freshly polished silver"
elegant
adj. refined and tasteful in appearance or behavior or style; "elegant handwriting"; "an elegant dark suit"; "she was elegant to her fingertips"; "small churches with elegant white spires"; "an elegant mathematical solution--simple and precise and lucid"
graceful
adj. characterized by beauty of movement, style, form, or execution
proper
adj. marked by suitability or rightness or appropriateness; "proper medical treatment"; "proper manners"
unpolished
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