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un-ostentatious

un-ostentatious is the rare form of unostentatious.

Meaning of unostentatious

Adjective

unostentatious (comparative more unostentatious, superlative most unostentatious)

  1. Not ostentatious; simple; unpresuming.
    • But terror had overpowered the scanty remains of a body once so powerful, and sensible they were only suffered to remain in this ancient seat by connivance and from compassion, they did not venture upon taking any step which might be construed into an assertion of their ancient rights, contenting...1820, [Walter Scott], chapter XIII, in The Abbot. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and...

Forms of un-ostentatious

comparativemore un-ostentatious
superlativemost un-ostentatious

Questions about un-ostentatious

What is un-ostentatious the rare form of?
Un-ostentatious is the rare form of unostentatious.

Words near un-ostentatious in the dictionary

  1. un-nuke
  2. un-nuked
  3. un-nukes
  4. un-nuking
  5. un-omitted
  6. un-ostentatious
  7. un-othering
  8. un-Palestinian
  9. un-pathetic
  10. un-PC
  11. un-pin-downable

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