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unfancy

unfancy adjective: not fancy; simple.

Adjective

unfancy (comparative more unfancy, superlative most unfancy)

  1. Not fancy; simple
    • Physically, the piece is slight: an odd-shaped, four-inch-across scrap of blue paper marked with unfancy parallel ink strokes and white highlights.2009 January 23, Holland Cotter, “Where Lines Become a Kind of Language”, in New York Times

Forms of unfancy

comparativemore unfancy
superlativemost unfancy

Origin of unfancy

From un- + fancy.

Questions about unfancy

What does unfancy mean?
Unfancy means not fancy; simple.
What part of speech is unfancy?
Unfancy is an adjective.

Words near unfancy in the dictionary

  1. unfanatically
  2. unfanciable
  3. unfancied
  4. unfanciful
  5. unfancifully
  6. unfancy
  7. unfang
  8. unfanged
  9. unfanging
  10. unfangs
  11. unfanned

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