unpolished

Questions about unpolished

What does unpolished mean?

unpolished means "not carefully reworked or perfected or made smooth by polishing". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in unpolished?

unpolished has 3 syllables and divides as un-poli-shed under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for unpolished?

Close synonyms include gauche, graceless. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of unpolished?

The recorded antonyms are polished.

Is unpolished a common word?

unpolished is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.