adj
Meaning 1
Simple, humble, not pretentious, plain.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
unpretentious
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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adjective
Meaning 2
not ostentatious
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- his unostentatious office
- unostentatious elegance
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: unostentatious, unpretending
Antonyms: none provided
adjective
Meaning 3
lacking pretension or affectation
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- an unpretentious country church
- her quiet unpretentious demeanor
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: pretentious
adjective satellite
Meaning 4
exhibiting restrained good taste
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the room is pleasant and understated
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: understated, unostentatious
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English pretentious English unpretentious From un- + pretentious.
Across languages
Translations
24 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: прост (prost) — not pretentious
- Bulgarian: скромен (skromen) — not pretentious
- Bulgarian: непретенциозен (nepretenciozen) — not pretentious
- Chinese Mandarin: 樸實無華的 /朴实无华的 (pǔshí wúhuá de) — not pretentious
- Danish: uhøjtidelig — not pretentious
- Esperanto: senafekta — not pretentious
- Esperanto: senpretenda — not pretentious
- Finnish: vaatimaton — not pretentious
- German: unprätentiös — not pretentious
- Hungarian: szerény — not pretentious
- Hungarian: visszafogott — not pretentious
- Irish: neamh-mhóiréiseach — not pretentious
- Macedonian: непретенцио́зен (nepretenciózen) — not pretentious
- Māori: whakamōwai — not pretentious
- Māori: hūnguengue — not pretentious
- Norwegian Bokmål: upretensiøs — not pretentious
- Norwegian Nynorsk: upretensiøs — not pretentious
- Polish: arcyskromny — not pretentious
- Polish: bezpretensjonalny — not pretentious
- Portuguese: despretensioso — not pretentious
- Russian: неприхотли́вый (neprixotlívyj) — not pretentious
- Swedish: opretentiös — not pretentious
- Swedish: chosefri — not pretentious
- Swedish: sjåsfri — not pretentious