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unflashy

unflashy adjective: not flashy.

Adjective

unflashy (comparative more unflashy, superlative most unflashy)

  1. Not flashy.
    • He was quiet, unassuming, decidedly unflashy, nearly clergylike: the antithesis of the popular image of an agent.2000, Daniel Okrent, Nine Innings: The Anatomy of a Baseball Game
    • She was nothing like the wild supermodels and party girls he had been dating. Ms. Hamm has unflashy clothes, jewelry and ways and is the opposite of high-maintenance.2007 January 28, Lois Smith Brady, “Shannon Hamm and John Warner IV”, in New York Times

Forms of unflashy

comparativemore unflashy
superlativemost unflashy

Origin of unflashy

From un- + flashy.

Questions about unflashy

What does unflashy mean?
Unflashy means not flashy.
What part of speech is unflashy?
Unflashy is an adjective.

Words near unflashy in the dictionary

  1. unflared
  2. unflares
  3. unflaring
  4. unflashed
  5. unflashing
  6. unflashy
  7. unflat
  8. unflatten
  9. unflattenable
  10. unflattened
  11. unflattening

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