1.
[syn: unrefined, unprocessed, crude]
2. (used of persons and their behavior) not refined; uncouth;
- Example: "how can a refined girl be drawn to such an unrefined man?"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Unrefined \Unrefined\
See refined.
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
unrefined
adj 1: not refined or processed; "unrefined ore"; "crude oil"
[syn: unrefined, unprocessed, crude] [ant:
processed, refined]
2: (used of persons and their behavior) not refined; uncouth;
"how can a refined girl be drawn to such an unrefined man?"
[ant: refined]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
213 Moby Thesaurus words for "unrefined":
Doric, Gothic, Neanderthal, Philistine, animal, arrested, awkward,
backward, barbarian, barbaric, barbarous, bestial, bookless,
boorish, broken, brutal, brutish, bumbling, bumpy, cacophonous,
caddish, choppy, churlish, cloddish, clodhopping, clownish, clumsy,
coarse, coarse-grained, corrugated, countrified, country-born,
country-bred, crass, cross-grained, crude, deceived, discourteous,
doggerel, dysphemistic, embryonic, farmerish, from the sticks,
functionally illiterate, gauche, graceless, grained, grainy,
grammarless, granular, granulated, gritty, gross, harsh, hayseed,
heathen, hick, hicky, hobnailed, homespun, hoodwinked, horripilant,
ignoble, ill-bred, ill-educated, ill-mannered, illiterate,
impolite, improper, impure, in bad taste, in embryo, in ovo,
in the rough, inconcinnate, inconcinnous, inconsiderate, incorrect,
indecorous, inelegant, inequal, infelicitous, insensitive,
inurbane, irregular, jolty, led astray, linsey-woolsey, loutish,
louty, low, lowbred, lowbrow, lumpen, lumpish, misinformed,
misinstructed, mistaught, nasty, native, natural, noncivilized,
nonintellectual, offensive, outlandish, oversimple, pagan, pimply,
pitted, plebeian, pocky, potholed, primitive, rank, raw,
reductionistic, reductive, ripply, rough, rough-and-ready,
rough-cast, rough-grained, rough-hewn, roughcast, roughhewn, rube,
rude, rudimental, rudimentary, ruffled, run-of-mine, rutted, rutty,
savage, shagged, shaggy, simplistic, stunted, tactless, tasteless,
textured, troglodytic, unblown, unbooked, unbookish, unbooklearned,
unbriefed, uncivil, uncivilized, unclarified, uncombed, uncourtly,
uncouth, uncultivated, uncultured, uncut, underdeveloped,
undeveloped, undignified, undressed, unedified, uneducated,
unerudite, uneuphonious, uneven, unfashioned, unfelicitous,
unfeminine, unfinished, unformed, ungenteel, ungentle,
ungentlemanly, ungraceful, ungracious, ungraded, unguided, unhewn,
uninstructed, unintellectual, unkempt, unlabored, unladylike,
unlearned, unlettered, unlevel, unlicked, unliterary, unmannerly,
unpolished, unprocessed, unread, unscholarly, unschooled, unseemly,
unsmooth, unsolicitous, unsophisticated, unsorted, unstudious,
untamed, untaught, untreated, untutored, ununiform, unworked,
unwrought, up-country, vulgar, wild, wimpled, yokel, yokelish