unpretentious

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ pretentious.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌʌnpɹəˈtɛnʃəs/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Adjective

unpretentious (comparative more unpretentious, superlative most unpretentious)

1. Simple, humble, not pretentious, plain.
   • 2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Cheltenham (1928)”, in RAIL, number 947, page 60:

     Cheltenham Spa station had opened in June 1840 as Cheltenham, being renamed Cheltenham Spa (Lansdown) in February 1925 and taking on its modern name of Cheltenham Spa in January 1948 - an oddity in itself as its town is plain, unpretentious Cheltenham.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:humble

Antonyms

• pretentious

Derived terms

• unpretentiously
• unpretentiousness

Translations

not pretentious

• Bulgarian: прост (bg) (prost), скромен (bg) (skromen), непретенциозен (bg) (nepretenciozen)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 樸實無華的 / 朴实无华的 (pǔshí wúhuá de)

• Danish: uhøjtidelig
• Esperanto: senafekta, senpretenda
• Finnish: vaatimaton (fi)
• German: unprätentiös (de)
• Irish: neamh-mhóiréiseach
• Macedonian: непретенцио́зен (nepretenciózen)
• Maori: whakamōwai, hūnguengue
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: upretensiøs

  Nynorsk: upretensiøs

• Polish: arcyskromny (pl), arcyskromny (pl), bezpretensjonalny (pl)
• Portuguese: despretensioso (pt) m
• Russian: неприхотли́вый (ru) (neprixotlívyj)
• Swedish: opretentiös (sv), chosefri (sv), sjåsfri (sv)