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1
being such as found in nature and not altered by processing or refining
- unrefined sugar
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2
hastily or roughly constructed
- an unrefined mountaineer's hut
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3
lacking in refinement or good taste
- guilty of such unrefined behavior as eating with their mouths open
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- coarse,
- common,
- crass,
- crude,
- gross,
- ill-bred,
- illiberal
- [archaic],
- incult,
- insensible,
- low,
- lowbred,
- lowbrow,
- raffish,
- rough,
- rough-hewn,
- roughneck,
- rude,
- rugged,
- tasteless,
- uncouth,
- uncultivated,
- uncultured,
- unpolished,
- vulgar
Words Related to unrefined
- countrified
- (also countryfied),
- provincial,
- rustic
- (also rustical),
- unsophisticated
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“Unrefined.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unrefined. Accessed 23 Jan. 2022.
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The first known use of unrefined was in 1582
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