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Adjectives (8)
unpretentious
adj. not ostentatious; "his unostentatious office"; "unostentatious elegance"
restrained, modest
adj. free from ostentation or pretension; "the restrained elegance of the room"
plain, simple, modest
adj. free from pomp or affectation; "comfortable but modest cottages"; "a simple rectangular brick building"; "a simple man with simple tastes"
unpretentious, understated
adj. exhibiting restrained good taste; "the room is pleasant and understated"
Fuzzynyms (33)
inconspicuous, invisible
adj. not prominent or readily noticeable; "he pushed the string through an inconspicuous hole"; "the invisible man"
uncomfortable, strange, ill at ease, reserved
adj. physically or mentally ill at ease: "ill at ease with strangers"; "felt strange in the presence of men who talked excitedly of ... battle"
mere, simple, bare
adj. unornamented; "a simple country schoolhouse"; "her black dress--simple to austerity"
basic, fundamental, ultimate, elemental
adj. furthest or highest in degree or order; utmost or extreme; "the ultimate achievement"; "the ultimate question"; "man's ultimate destiny"; "the ultimate insult"; "one's ultimate goal in life"
plain, patent, manifest, clear, evident, apparent
adj. clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment; "the effects of the drought are apparent to anyone who sees the parched fields"; "evident hostility"; "manifest disapproval"; "patent advantages"; "made his meaning plain"; "it is plain that he is no reactionary"; "in plain view"
Spartan
adj. of or relating to or characteristic of Sparta or its people
absolute, rank, gross, perfect, utter, sheer, pure, stark, arrant, double-dyed, out-and-out, sodding, staring
adj. without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers; "an arrant fool"; "a complete coward"; "a consummate fool"; "a double-dyed villain"; "gross negligence"; "a perfect idiot"; "pure folly"; "what a sodding mess"; "stark staring mad"; "a thoroughgoing villain"; "utter nonsense"; "the unadulterated truth"
Synonyms (6)
prudent
adj. careful and sensible; marked by sound judgment; "a prudent manager"; "prudent rulers"; "prudent hesitation"; "more prudent to hide than to fight"
honest
adj. without pretensions; "worked at an honest trade"; "good honest food"
unpompous
adj. not pompous
pleasing, aesthetic, artistic
adj. aesthetically pleasing; "an artistic flower arrangement"
Antonyms (22)
ostentatious, pretentious
adj. intended to attract notice and impress others; "an ostentatious sable coat"
pretentious
adj. making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction; "a pretentious country house"; "a pretentious fraud"; "a pretentious scholarly edition"
elegant
adj. refined and tasteful in appearance or behavior or style; "elegant handwriting"; "an elegant dark suit"; "she was elegant to her fingertips"; "small churches with elegant white spires"; "an elegant mathematical solution--simple and precise and lucid"
flash, gaudy, brassy, vulgar, flashy, cheap, loud, meretricious, tawdry, garish, gimcrack, tacky, trashy
adj. tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments"
overblown, grandiloquent, pompous, pontifical, portentous
adj. puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek
unostentatious
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