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Adjectives (4)
simple
adj. free of artificiality: "simple unstudied charm"
effortless
adj. "careless grace"
familiar
adj. "lectured in a familiar style"
uncontrived
adj. not by design or artifice; unforced and impromptu; "an air of unstudied spontaneous utterance is apt to be painstakingly achieved"; "simple unstudied charm"
Fuzzynyms (27)
accepted, received
adj. widely accepted as true or worthy; "the accepted wisdom about old age"; "a received moral idea"; "Received political wisdom says not; surveys show otherwise"- Economist
accustomed
adj. (often followed by `to') in the habit of or adapted to; "accustomed to doing her own work"; "I've grown accustomed to her face"
conventional, ceremonious
adj. rigidly formal or bound by convention; "their ceremonious greetings did not seem heartfelt"
conventional
adj. following accepted customs and proprieties; "conventional wisdom"; "she had strayed from the path of conventional behavior"; "conventional forms of address"
cordial, genial, affable, amiable
adj. diffusing warmth and friendliness; "an affable smile"; "an amiable gathering"; "cordial relations"; "a cordial greeting"; "a genial host"
commonplace, trivial, banal
adj. obvious and dull; "trivial conversation"; "commonplace prose"
pedestrian, prosaic, prosy
adj. lacking wit or imagination; "a pedestrian movie plot"
routine, stock, ready-made, cliched
adj. repeated regularly without thought or originality; "ready-made phrases"
friendly
adj. easy to understand or use; "user-friendly computers"; "a consumer-friendly policy"; "a reader-friendly novel"
vernacular, common, vulgar, nonliterary
adj. being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language; "common parlance"; "a vernacular term"; "vernacular speakers"; "the vulgar tongue of the masses"; "the technical and vulgar names for an animal species"
matter-of-fact, prosaic
adj. not fanciful or imaginative; "local guides describe the history of various places in matter-of-fact tones"; "a prosaic and unimaginative essay"
Synonyms (28)
guileless, honest
adj. free from guile; "his answer was simple and honest"
naive, unsophisticated
adj. inexperienced
passing, casual, perfunctory, superficial
adj. hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough; "a casual (or cursory) inspection failed to reveal the house's structural flaws"; "a passing glance"; "perfunctory courtesy"
haphazard, hit-or-miss, slapdash, slipshod, sloppy
adj. marked by great carelessness; "a most haphazard system of record keeping"; "slapdash work"; "slipshod spelling"; "sloppy workmanship"
knockabout, casual, everyday
adj. suited for everyday use; "casual clothes"; "everyday clothes"
folksy
adj. very informal and familiar; "a folksy radio commentator"; "a folksy style"
casual, free-and-easy
adj. natural and unstudied; "using their Christian names in a casual way"; "lectured in a free-and-easy style"
unceremonious
adj. without ceremony or formality; "an unceremonious speech"
chance, casual, accidental
adj. occurring or appearing or singled out by chance; "their accidental meeting led to a renewal of their friendship"; "seek help from casual passers-by"; "a casual meeting"; "a chance occurrence"
ad hoc
adj. often improvised or impromptu; "an ad hoc committee meeting"
casual, offhand, offhanded
adj. without or seeming to be without plan or method; offhand; "a casual remark"; "information collected by casual methods and in their spare time"
unexpected
adj. not planned; "an unexpected pregnancy"
Antonyms (0)
unstudied
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