Dictionary Definition
unrefined adj
2 used of persons and their behavior; not
refined; uncouth; "how can a refined girl be drawn to such an
unrefined man?" [ant: refined]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Adjective
unrefined- crude, raw or unprocessed
- In the context of "of a person": lacking refinement; uncouth
Translations
- Finnish: puhdistamaton, luonnonmukainen
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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