unflattering

unflattering
Synonyms and related words:
authentic, bona fide, candid, card-carrying, dinkum, following the letter, genuine, good, guileless, harsh, honest, honest-to-God, inartificial, insulting, lawful, legitimate, lifelike, literal, natural, naturalistic, original, pure, real, realistic, rightful, simon-pure, simple, sincere, stark, sterling, sure-enough, true to life, true to nature, true to reality, unadulterated, unaffected, unassumed, unassuming, unbeguileful, unbeguiling, uncalculating, uncolored, uncomplimentary, unconcocted, uncopied, uncounterfeited, undeceitful, undeceiving, undeceptive, undesigning, undisguised, undisguising, undissembling, undissimulated, undissimulating, undistorted, unexaggerated, unfabricated, unfanciful, unfavorable, unfeigned, unfeigning, unfictitious, unimagined, unimitated, uninvented, unpretended, unpretending, unqualified, unromantic, unsimulated, unspecious, unsympathetic, unsynthetic, untrimmed, unvarnished, verbal, verbatim, veridical, verisimilar, word-for-word

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  • unflattering — index calumnious, derogatory, harsh, pejorative Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • unflattering — 1580s, from UN (Cf. un ) (1) not + gerundive of FLATTER (Cf. flatter) …   Etymology dictionary

  • unflattering — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ not flattering. DERIVATIVES unflatteringly adverb …   English terms dictionary

  • unflattering — [spelling only] …   English World dictionary

  • unflattering — [[t]ʌnflæ̱tərɪŋ[/t]] ADJ GRADED If you describe something as unflattering, you mean that it makes a person or thing seem less attractive than they really are. He depicted the town s respectable families in an unflattering light... The knee length …   English dictionary

  • unflattering — adjective Date: 1581 not flattering < an unflattering portrait >; especially unfavorable < unflattering remarks > • unflatteringly adverb …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • unflattering — adjective 1) an unflattering review Syn: unfavorable, uncomplimentary, harsh, unsympathetic, critical, negative, hostile, scathing Ant: complimentary 2) an unflattering dress Syn …   Thesaurus of popular words

  • unflattering — UK [ʌnˈflæt(ə)rɪŋ] / US adjective making someone seem unpleasant or not attractive The book paints an unflattering picture of the former president. a dress that was distinctly unflattering …   English dictionary

  • unflattering — un|flat|ter|ing [ʌnˈflætərıŋ] adj making someone look or seem bad or unattractive ▪ an unflattering portrait …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • unflattering — un|flat|ter|ing [ ʌn flæt(ə)rıŋ ] adjective making someone seem unpleasant or not attractive: The book paints an unflattering picture of the former president …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • unflattering — adj.; unflatteringly, adv. * * * …   Universalium

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