polished

Synonyms

accomplished, civilized, cultivated, cultured, genteel, refined;

Antonyms

barbaric, barbarous, philistine, uncivilized, uncultured, ungenteel, unpolished, unrefined;

Near Antonyms

ignorant, illiterate, uneducated, unlettered;

lowbrow, unintelligent;

coarse, ill-bred, ill-mannered;

backwoods, provincial, rustic (also rustical);

inelegant, polyester, unsophisticated;

boorish, churlish, cloddish, clownish, crude, uncouth, vulgar;

Related Words

cerebral, highbrow, highbrowed, high-toned, intellectual, intellectualist, intellectualistic;

bourgeois, middlebrow;

educated, erudite, knowledgeable, learned, literate, scholarly, well-read;

civil, courteous, mannerly, polite, well-bred;

cosmopolitan, sophisticated, urbane;

hypercivilized, overcivilized, oversophisticated;