SEMIFINISHED Synonyms: 17 Similar and Opposite Words

semifinished

adjective

Definition of semifinished

as in unfinished

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Recent Examples of semifinished Nickel—raw or semifinished—was Cuba’s third-largest export in 2024, according to the Observatory of Economic Complexity, and China was the top recipient. — Vivian Salama, The Atlantic, 24 May 2026 The Brazil Steel Institute said in a statement at the time that it was shocked by the announcement and warned that the decision would hurt the American steel industry, which needs semifinished products exported by Brazil to operate its mills. — Letícia Casado, New York Times, 21 Dec. 2019

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Adjective

Many houses in the densely populated middle class neighborhood where the sprayers operated were built with low quality materials, left unfinished or damaged.

— ABC News, ABC News, 18 Oct. 2026
The unfinished lower level offers an exceptional amount of space for storage, a workshop, hobby area, home theater, or gym.

— James Alexander, Hartford Courant, 18 Oct. 2026

Definition of unfinished

Adjective

Celebrated as masterpieces today, at the time they were regarded as the unpolished works of a depressed, crazy man and commercially worthless.

— Joan Martelli, Time, 17 Oct. 2026
One young fashion photographer who made a name for himself at indie mags like i-D with his unpolished images of a teenage Kate Moss, was Juergen Teller.

— Sheena McKenzie, CNN Money, 8 Oct. 2026

Definition of unpolished

Adjective

In August, specialists at Washington Dulles International Airport seized about 440 pounds of unprocessed cotton from a family arriving from Afghanistan.

— Alexandra Harrell, Footwear News, 16 Oct. 2026
Johnson’s announcement, shared first with CNBC, comes a little more than a week after The Texas Tribune and VoteBeat reported that the DPS error caused at least 200,000 voter registration applications to go unprocessed.

— Justin Papp, CNBC, 2 Oct. 2026

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