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polished

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of polished

1 having a shiny surface or finish

  • she could see her face reflected in the polished hood of the car
Synonyms of polished

buffed, burnished, glistening, glossy, lustrous, rubbed, satin, satiny, sleek
Words Related to polished

brushed, eggshell, semigloss, semilustrous

silken, silky, slick, slippery

glassy, glazed, lacquered, shellacked, varnished

gleaming, glittering, reflective, shining
Near Antonyms of polished

lackluster

unvarnished
Antonyms of polished

dim, dull, flat, lusterless, matte (also mat)

2 having or showing a taste for the fine arts and gracious living

  • showing the polished manners of a cosmopolitan woman
Synonyms of polished

accomplished, civilized, couth, cultivated, cultured, genteel, refined
Words Related to polished

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
Near Antonyms of polished

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
Antonyms of polished

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

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