Adjective
- 1. unrefined (vs. refined), unprocessed, crude
- usage: not refined or processed; "unrefined ore"; "crude oil"
- 2. unrefined (vs. refined), agrestic, artless, uncultivated, uncultured, boorish, loutish, neanderthal, neandertal, oafish, swinish, coarse, common, rough-cut, uncouth, vulgar, crass, ill-bred, bounderish, lowbred, rude, underbred, yokelish, low, robust, rough, rough-spoken, ungentlemanly, ungentlemanlike, unladylike, inelegant, unfastidious, ungracious, unpolished
- usage: (used of persons and their behavior) not refined; uncouth; "how can a refined girl be drawn to such an unrefined man?"
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