Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Lacking pretension or affectation; modest. See Synonyms at plain.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Not pretentious; making no claim to distinction; modest.
Wiktionary
- adj. simple, humble, not pretentious, plain
WordNet 3.0
- adj. lacking pretension or affectation
- adj. exhibiting restrained good taste
- adj. not ostentatious
Etymologies
- un- + pretentious (Wiktionary)
Examples
“But Stacey, whom everyone describes as unpretentious, refused to drive her new Mercedes, instead sticking with an old forest-green Chrysler minivan.”
“Carly Fiorina, he was approvingly described as "unpretentious" -- a button-down manager who prized efficiency over flair. mark hurd, mark hurd wife, mark hurd resigns, hpq, hp, hp ceo”
“When he arrived in Silicon Valley in 2005, brought in from Ohio to lead Hewlett-Packard after the stormy tenure of former CEO and now US Senate candidate Carly Fiorina, he was approvingly described as "unpretentious" -- a button-down manager who prized efficiency over flair. mark hurd, mark hurd wife, mark hurd resigns, hpq, hp, hp ceo”
“Fiorina, he was approvingly described as "unpretentious" -- a button-down manager who prized efficiency over flair. mark hurd, mark hurd wife, mark hurd resigns, hpq, hp, hp ceo”
“I love the idea of unpretentious art as anti-, but also non-anti-.”
“He is as delightful as he is unpretentious, which is rare in a man so celebrated as he is, and she has lost none of her fascinations, although she is a grandmother.”
“Saturday January 26 2008 and it's 4am at home in Eccleston, a sleepy town in west Lancashire, north of Manchester and west of Liverpool - nowhere in particular, anonymous and unpretentious, which is exactly as I like it.”
“It was like three minutes three-minute pop songs that were kind of unpretentious and very basically about love, and just being a teenager and having a good time, you know.”
“Will be interesting to see how her 'unpretentious' lack of competency plays out among the great masses/independents.”
“Many of the pictures and symbols were helpful to the Democrats 'cause: a family that clearly was from the real America -- Wallace and Bobby, his parents; a wife, Elizabeth, who looks like the kind of unpretentious person who doesn't mind celebrating her anniversary at Wendy's; a demure daughter and two towheaded tots.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘unpretentious’.
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GRE
predilection, explicit, appeal, supplication, appealing, enchanting, ovation, pertinent, apropos, opportunely, applicable, germane and 381 more...
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Un-word List
untrammelled, untoward, unenthusiastically, unenthusiastic, undaunted, uncanny, unceasing, unbridled, unacknowledged, unacquainted, unadorned, unaffected and 239 more...
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GRE
acrimony, verisimilitude, tenebrious, tenebrous, dishabille, unfettered, deplorable, woebegone, credulity, naïveté, mitigate, meliorate and 475 more...
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amy's GRE 2012
gimmicks, kowtow, unpretentious, skeptical, cynical, somber, prevaricate, equivocate, requisite, embellish, impregnable, procrastinate and 307 more...
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One more switchback
Tip of the hat to Stephen, who always tells me "only one more switchback" as we go up the trail. Usually it is a lie, but it still works!
switchback, heavens to murgat..., prosody, catarrh, ice storm, existential, predicament, intermingle, comingle, stolid, zeitgeist, bibliophage and 146 more...
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SAT Words That Mean 'Humble'
A list of positive SAT words that mean 'humble.' Based on Gruber's SAT Word Master word list. Categorizing words according to meaning can aid in the memorization process.
demure, diffident, indisposed, introverted, laconic, plebian, reluctant, restrained, reticent, subdued, subservient, taciturn and 5 more...
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Paste Practice
microbe, lackadaisical, avocation, hapless, fastidious, flamboyant, adroit, laudatory, reticent, admonitory, vociferous, tepid and 25 more...
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Personality
incandescent, perspicacious, sagacious, opprobrious, incomprehensible, odious, lascivious, licentious, loathsome, unpretentious, pretentious, gregarious and 6 more...
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traits (good)
good, virtuous traits that are common in human behaviour.
goto traits (neutral)
goto traits (bad)
( randomness, descriptive, psychology, virtue, mindset, perspective...bibliophilism, energetic, scientific, trustworthy, integrity, empathy, kindness, generosity, compassion, knowledgeable, sincerity, foresight and 80 more...
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Personality descriptors
If it's a word that describes someone's personality, than it belongs in this list.
incandescent, perspicacious, sagacious, opprobrious, odious, lascivious, licentious, loathsome, unpretentious, pretentious, gregarious, surreptitious and 27 more...
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