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unglamorous

unglamorous adjective: not glamorous; humdrum or prosaic.

Adjective

unglamorous (comparative more unglamorous, superlative most unglamorous)

  1. Not glamorous; humdrum or prosaic.
    • Whitney is absorbed especially by Dublin's unglamorous interstitial zones: the new housing estates and labyrinths of roads, watercourses and railways where the city peters into its commuter belt.2014 August 23, Neil Hegarty, “Hidden City: Adventures and Explorations in Dublin by Karl Whitney, review: 'a necessary corrective' [print version: Re-Joycing in Dublin, p. R25]”, in The Daily...
    • And at the unglamorous end of upgrade work, it plans to improve drainage.2022 November 16, Philip Haigh, “Trans-Pennine... transformative”, in RAIL, number 970, page 38

Forms of unglamorous

comparativemore unglamorous
superlativemost unglamorous

Origin of unglamorous

From un- + glamorous.

Words formed from unglamorous

Questions about unglamorous

What does unglamorous mean?
Unglamorous means not glamorous; humdrum or prosaic.
What part of speech is unglamorous?
Unglamorous is an adjective.

Words near unglamorous in the dictionary

  1. ungladly
  2. ungladness
  3. ungladsome
  4. unglammed
  5. unglamorized
  6. unglamorous
  7. unglamorously
  8. unglamorousness
  9. unglamourous
  10. unglamourously
  11. unglandered

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