unassuming

unassuming
Synonyms 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, word-for-word

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  • Unassuming — Un as*sum ing, a. Not assuming; not bold or forward; not arrogant or presuming; humble; modest; retiring; as, an unassuming youth; unassuming manners. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • unassuming — index diffident, direct (forthright), honest, inconspicuous, ordinary, unaffected (sincere) …   Law dictionary

  • unassuming — (adj.) unpretentious, 1726, from UN (Cf. un ) (1) not + infinitive of ASSUME (Cf. assume) …   Etymology dictionary

  • unassuming — [adj] shy backward, bashful, diffident, humble, lowly, meek, modest, mousy*, plain, prim, quiet, reserved, retiring, self effacing, simple, unambitious, unassertive, unobtrusive, unostentatious, unpretending, unpretentious; concepts 401,404 Ant.… …   New thesaurus

  • unassuming — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ not pretentious or arrogant. DERIVATIVES unassumingly adverb …   English terms dictionary

  • unassuming — [un΄ə so͞o′miŋ, un΄əsyo͞o′miŋ] adj. not assuming, pretentious, or forward; modest; retiring unassumingly adv. unassumingness n …   English World dictionary

  • unassuming — adjective Date: 1722 not assuming ; modest < an unassuming librarian > < an unassuming manner > < an unassuming neighborhood > • unassumingness noun …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • unassuming — [[t]ʌ̱nəsju͟ːmɪŋ, AM su͟ːm [/t]] ADJ GRADED (approval) If you describe a person or their behaviour as unassuming, you approve of them because they are quiet and do not try to appear important. He s a man of few words, very polite and unassuming …   English dictionary

  • unassuming — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. modest, retiring, reserved. See modesty. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. quiet, retiring, reserved; see humble 1 , modest 2 . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) (VOCABULARY WORD) a. [un uh SOO ming] modest… …   English dictionary for students

  • unassuming — adjective showing no desire to be noticed or given special treatment; modest: an unassuming middle class family …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • unassuming — adjective she s not quite the unassuming ingenue she seems to be Syn: modest, self effacing, humble, meek, bashful, reserved, diffident; unobtrusive, unostentatious, low key, unpretentious, unaffected, natural, artless, ingenuous …   Thesaurus of popular words

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