Dictionary Definition
unassuming adj : not arrogant or presuming;
"unassuming to a fault, skeptical about the value of his work"; "a
shy retiring girl" [syn: retiring]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -uːmɪŋ
Adjective
- modest and having no pretensions or ostentation
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Bohemian, affable, arcadian, authentic, bona fide, bucolic, candid, card-carrying, casual, cordial, degage, dinkum, direct, easy, easygoing, familiar, folksy, following the letter,
free and easy, genuine,
good, gracious, guileless, haymish, homely, homespun, homey, honest, honest-to-God, humble, inartificial, informal, irregular, lawful, legitimate, lifelike, literal, loose, lowly, meek, modest, native, natural, naturalistic, naturelike, offhand, offhanded, original, pastoral, plain, pure, real, realistic, relaxed, rightful, rural, simon-pure, simple, sincere, sociable, sterling, straightforward,
sure-enough, true to life, true to nature, true to reality,
unadorned, unadulterated, unaffected, unambitious, unartificial, unaspiring, unassumed, unbeguileful, unbeguiling, unboastful, uncalculating, unceremonious, uncolored, unconcocted, unconstrained, unconventional, uncopied, uncounterfeited,
undeceitful,
undeceiving,
undeceptive,
undesigning,
undisguised,
undisguising,
undissembling,
undissimulated,
undissimulating,
undistorted,
unembellished,
unexaggerated,
unfabricated,
unfanciful, unfeigned, unfeigning, unfictitious, unflattering, unimagined, unimitated, unimposing, uninvented, unobtrusive, unofficial, unostentatious, unpresuming, unpresumptuous, unpretended, unpretending, unpretentious, unqualified, unromantic, unsimulated, unspecious, unspoiled, unstudied, unsynthetic, untrimmed, unvarnished, verbal, verbatim, veridical, verisimilar,
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