unembellished
unembellished adjective: plain, unadorned, or simple.
Adjective
unembellished (comparative more unembellished, superlative most unembellished)
- Plain, unadorned, or simple.
- Thus passed the last of the North Wales Narrow Gauge locomotives, and one of the few American-built locomotives to survive in Great Britain; the sadly cropped though once elegant Russell, and the unembellished yet useful Yankee plug-ugly.1941 October, C. Hamilton Ellis, Charles E. Lee, “The Welsh Highland Railway—III”, in Railway Magazine, page 435
- Antonyms:
- adorned, decorate, complicated, bedizened, blatant, blingish, brash, campy, catchpenny, chichi
Synonyms of unembellished
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Antonyms
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Forms of unembellished
| comparative | more unembellished |
|---|---|
| superlative | most unembellished |
Origin of unembellished
From un- + embellished.
Questions about unembellished
- What does unembellished mean?
- Unembellished means plain, unadorned, or simple.
- What part of speech is unembellished?
- Unembellished is an adjective.
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