polished | Definition of polished

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

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