Unpretentious

//ˌʌnpɹəˈtɛnʃəs// adj

adj ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Simple, humble, not pretentious, plain.

    "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."

Adjective
  1. 1
    not ostentatious wordnet
  2. 2
    lacking pretension or affectation wordnet
  3. 3
    exhibiting restrained good taste wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms
modesthoneststraightforwardunassumingunostentatiousaltruistic

Example

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"The man who will become Japan’s next prime minister is the son of strawberry farmers, with an unpretentious personality and a penchant for exceeding others’ expectations of him."

Etymology

From un- + pretentious.

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