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单词 unpolished
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unpolishedadj.

Brit. /(ˌ)ʌnˈpɒlɪʃt/, U.S. /ˌənˈpɑlɪʃt/
Forms: see un- prefix1 and polished adj.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation; originally modelled on a Latin lexical item. Etymons: un- prefix1, polished adj.
Etymology: < un- prefix1 + polished adj., originally after classical Latin impolītus impolite adj.
1.
a. Not polished; not made smooth and glossy by rubbing or by the application of polish. Also figurative.
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the world > space > shape > unevenness > [adjective] > rough > not smoothed, polished, etc.
unpolisheda1382
unrubbedc1400
unshavena1547
unscaled1577
unrolled1580
unfiled1590
unplained1598
unplaned1611
unsmoothed1614
impolite1621
unground1793
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1961) Deut. xxvii. 6 An auter..of stonys vnformed & vnpolysched [L. inpolitis].
?c1475 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 15562) f. 100 Vn Pulysched, impolitus.
1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Vnpollished, and not perfitly wrought, raudus.
1596 T. Danett tr. P. de Commynes Hist. vii. xv. 306 Twelue or fowerteene Rubie ballais, the greatest that euer I saw.., but they are vnpolished.
1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning ii. sig. Rr1v The better sort of Rules, haue beene not vnfitly compared to glasses of steele vnpullished. View more context for this quotation
1635 J. Swan Speculum Mundi iii. §2. 54 Both of them [sc. the heavens] remained as it were unpolished or unfinished untill the fourth day.
1706 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 25 2217 It very much resembles a piece of white unpolished Rock Coral.
1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 166. ⁋3 Fortitude, and probity,..are cast aside like unpolished gems.
1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art I. 5 If the tool be unpolished.
1874 J. Geikie Great Ice Age vi. 79 Rough, unpolished angular fragments that have tumbled..from cliffs.
1920 H. Leverage Where Dead Men Walk xvi. 275 The suit he wore was wrinkled and torn. His shoes were unpolished.
1964 Chicago Rev. 17 No. 2–3. 112 The floors and partitions of the lobby are unpolished granite, hard, rough-textured, and durable.
2006 T. Zoellner Heartless Stone v. 119 Three floors below us were a series of vaults that contain the world's largest stockpile of unpolished diamonds.
b. Of rice: not having had all the bran removed from the grain by polishing.
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1870 Hawaiian Gaz. 12 Jan. We noticed at Honolulu Rice Mill the other day, a quantity of very fine unpolished rice.., imported from China.
1898 Daily Picayune (New Orleans) 3 Sept. 1/6 (advt.) Buy the best—the unpolished rice... 4 pounds of unpolished best head rice..to-day for 25c.
1911 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 4 Feb. 277/2 The prevention of beri-beri can certainly be accomplished by the use of unpolished rice.
1963 D. McLaren Malnutrition & Eye xiii. 247 In the more northern camps.., the rice was unpolished and the diet was fortified with soya bean.
2006 G. Lucas Compl. Guide Gluten-free & Dairy-free Cooking 52 Unpolished rice is a great source of protein and energy, fibre and B vitamins.
2. Not carefully finished; not skilfully performed; crude, inelegant, unfinessed.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > inelegance > [adjective]
wanmola1325
rudea1393
lewdc1425
rustyc1425
unpolisheda1450
roidc1485
inelegant1509
gross1513
rough?1520
barbarous1526
ineloquent1532
inconcinnate1534
crabby1550
crabbed1561
uneloquent1565
unelegant1570
unkempt1579
unfiled1590
illiterate1598
unconceived1599
aliterate1624
incompta1628
scabbed1630
uncombed1633
uncompt1633
uncouth1694
coarse1699
slatternly1783
crude1786
warty1822
stumbling1859
a1450 (c1435) J. Lydgate Life SS. Edmund & Fremund (Harl.) l. 26 in C. Horstmann Altengl. Legenden (1881) 2nd Ser. 440 Go, litel book..Dul and vnpulsshed off fructuous sentence.
c1489 J. Skelton Dethe Erle of Northumberlande l. 127 in Poet. Wks. (1843) I. 11 My wordes vnpullysht be, nakide and playne.
1585 S. Daniel in tr. P. Giovio Worthy Tract contayning Disc. Imprese Ep. Ded. sig. *.ii In like maner..haue I aduentured to place these my vnpolished labors on the Piller of your worthines.
1596 Raigne of Edward III sig. A4 His lame vnpolisht shifts are come to light. View more context for this quotation
1604 J. Hanson Time is Turne-coate Ep. Ded. sig. ¶4v I humbly intreate your fauourable entertainment to these my vnpolished lines.
1647 Earl of Clarendon Contempl. Psalms in Tracts (1727) 527 To reduce our unpolished speculations and conceptions into a prompt and ready practice.
1692 T. Brown tr. A. Dacier in C. Gildon Misc. Poems sig. B7v To hear Homer called dull.., and Horace an Author unpolished, languid, and without force.
a1780 J. Harris Philol. Inq. (1781) iii. xi. 468 At a time, when the Languages of England and France were barbarous and unpolished.
1837 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe I. v. 461 Budæus..is hard and unpolished.
1891 F. W. Farrar Darkness & Dawn I. xxii. 209 It cannot be Chrysippus; the Greek is too modern, and too unpolished.
1920 A. W. Locke Music & Romantic Movement in France vi. 169 Chopin was not attracted by what he felt was the rugged, unpolished style of Beethoven.
1981 Times Lit. Suppl. 24 Apr. 461/ The play survives only in a text with serious loose ends and much unpolished dialogue.
2010 L. Tunbridge Song Cycle iv. 61 Theirs was a deliberately unpolished style..; they had only learnt their instruments on joining the band.
3. Not refined or elegant in manners or conduct; not civilized or cultured.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > want of knowledge, ignorance > cultural ignorance > [adjective]
rudea1382
roida1400
borel1513
rustical?1532
illiberal1535
waste?1541
rusticc1550
illiterate1556
ruggedc1565
profane1568
unskilful1572
raw?1573
clownish1581
home-born1589
rough-hewn1593
unpolished1594
artless1598
home-bred1602
unbevelled1602
incult1628
museless1644
uncultivated1646
incultivateda1657
uncultivate1659
incultivate1661
unpolite1674
uncult1675
repent1684
uncultivated1725
uncultured1777
unenlightened1792
cultureless1824
sloven1856
philistinic1869
undoctrined1869
Philistine1871
Philistinish1871
roughneck1906
lowbrow1907
low-level1916
no-brow1922
bohunk1957
bakya1960
the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > lack of refinement > [adjective] > specifically of persons
boistousc1300
rudec1405
blunt1477
rustyc1485
rough?1531
sillya1547
ruggedc1565
unrefined1582
unpolished1594
unfashioned1606
inurbane1623
incult1628
ungenteel1633
roughsome?c1660
unpolite1674
inelegant1735
untutored1751
unrarefied1835
the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > unpreparedness > [adjective] > unready or immature
green?a1300
rawa1398
indigest1398
unmatured?a1425
unripea1500
unseasonable1515
unbuilded1519
inchoate1534
unripened1561
uncivil1572
unmellowed1573
unmanured1577
unblown1587
ungrown1593
unpolished1594
rudimental1597
rude1600
unsalted1602
unseasoned1602
unlicked1612
embryon1613
unbakeda1616
unbloweda1616
unfledged1615
unmellow1615
sappya1627
embryous1628
unconcocteda1631
unkneaded1633
immature1635
sucking1648
vacuous1651
embryo1659
unelaborate1663
unmature1673
unformed1689
undeveloped1736
infantile1772
uncultivated1796
unelaborated1817
fetal1820
embryotic1823
embryonic1825
embryonary1833
sophomoric1837
seedling1843
rudimentary1851
unwrought1869
juvenescent1875
vealy1890
under-developed1892
the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > [adjective] > ill-mannered > unrefined
boistousc1300
untheweda1325
uplandisha1387
unaffiled1390
rudea1393
knavishc1405
peoplisha1425
clubbedc1440
blunt1477
lob?1507
robust1511
borel1513
carterly1519
clubbish1530
rough?1531
rustical?1532
incondite1539
agrestc1550
rusticc1550
brute1555
lobcocka1556
loutisha1556
carterlike1561
boorish1562
ruggedc1565
lobbish1567
loutlike1567
sowish1570
clownish1581
unrefined1582
impolished1583
homespun1590
transalpinea1592
swaddish1593
unpolished1594
untutored1595
swabberly1596
tartarous1602
porterly1603
lobcocked1606
lob-like1606
cluster-fisted1611
agrestic1617
inurbane1623
unelevated1627
incult1628
unbrushed1640
vulgar1643
unhewed1644
unsmooth1648
hirsute1658
loutardly1658
unhewn1659
roughsome?c1660
sordid1668
inhumanea1680
coarse1699
brutal1709
ramgunshoch1721
tramontane1740
uncouth1740
no-nationa1756
unurbane1760
turnipy1792
rudas1802
common1804
cubbish1819
clodhopping1828
vulgarian1833
cloddish1844
unkempt1846
bush1851
vulgarish1860
rodney1866
crude1876
ignorant1886
yobby1910
nekulturny1932
oikish1959
yobbish1966
ocker1972
down and dirty1977
1594 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 iii. ii. 274 The Commons rude vnpolisht hinds.
1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. iii. xii. 625 Little..remaineth of her [sc. Nature's] image, imprinted in the life of this rusticall troupe of vnpollished men.
1672 J. Dryden Def. Epilogue in Conquest Granada 173 They were unlucky to have been bred in an unpolish'd Age.
1703 J. Savage tr. Select Coll. Lett. Antients xxxvii. 99 I have had an unpolish'd Education..in Barbarous Nations.
1776 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall I. ix. 232 The unpolished wives of the barbarians.
a1817 J. Austen Persuasion (1818) III. ix. 173 Their parents' inferior, retired, and unpolished way of living. View more context for this quotation
1853 T. T. Lynch Lect. Self-improvem. v. 112 An unpolished man need not be an ill-mannered one.
1902 M. Davitt Boer Fight for Freedom xxxiii. 423 A commonplace individual, of rough exterior and markedly unpolished manners.
1958 P. J. Stanlis E. Burke & Nat. Law v. 132 This..argument against primitive or unpolished society..exalts the civilizing function of artificial institutions.
2005 C. Scarlett College Girls viii. 114 Charlotte..had noticed how gauche and unpolished the new girl seemed in comparison with the regular party-goers.

Derivatives

unˈpolishedness n. now somewhat rare
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > lack of refinement > [noun]
simplessea1393
roughnessa1398
rudenessc1405
unrefinedness1607
simpleness1648
unpolishedness1652
unpoliteness1700
sordidness1704
ungenteelness1706
indelicacy1712
unrefinement1769
ungentility1822
unprinceliness1855
outbackery1961
the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > [noun] > unmannerliness > unrefined manners or behaviour
villainyc1340
churlhood1382
rudenessc1405
boistousness1526
uplandishness1530
rusticity1531
coarseness1541
loutishnessa1556
grossness1563
boorishness1570
rusticality1572
clownishness1576
bouerie1577
roughness1581
clownery1589
swinishness1591
peasantryc1592
inurbanity1598
community1600
rusticalnessa1603
clownagea1637
wildness1639
vulgarness1642
unpolishedness1652
brutism1687
mismanners1697
unpoliteness1700
brutality1709
mechanicism1710
indelicacy1712
untameness1727
vulgarism1749
vulgaritya1774
shag1785
piggishness1796
cubbishness1828
sylvanity1832
rusticness1838
plebeianness1840
swainishness1854
baboonery1857
yahooism1862
slanginess1865
bucolicism1879
vulgarianism1920
outbackery1961
yobbishness1969
ockerism1974
blokeishness1989
1652 J. Wright tr. J.-P. Camus Nature's Paradox v. 90 Those hearts, which may bee said to bee of Iron for their rude unpolishedness.
1770 D. Hunter Observ. Hist. Jesus I. iii. §i. 75 An obscure village.., distinguished..by the general ignorance or unpolishedness of its inhabitants.
1863 Brit. Controversialist 3rd Ser. 4 The friends of truth..use the instruments of aggression or defence awkwardly, or keep them in the rude unpolishedness of their original condition.
2012 S. Korn Successful Online Start-ups for Dummies i. i. 32 People tolerate and sometimes like the ‘unpolishedness’ of start-ups.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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