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.
Source: tatoeba (9038181)
Unpretentious
//ˌʌnpɹəˈtɛnʃəs//
Synonyms for "unpretentious" (105 found)
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Closest matches (21)
Strong matches (32)
Related words (52)
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unacquisitiveunadornedunaffectedunambitiousunartificialunaspiringunboastfulunderstatedundesigningundisguisingundissemblingundissimulatingundistinguishedunembellishedunfeigningunimportantunimposingunobtrusiveunpompousunpossessiveunpresumingunpresumptuousunpretendingunselfishunsparing of selfunspoiledunvarnished
Adjective(2 words)
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Antonyms
2 entriesSynonyms
6 entriesderived
2 entriesderived from
1 entriesrelated to
5 entriessimilar
10 entriesTranslations
25 translations across 16 languages.
Bulgarian
3 entries- непретенциозен adj (not pretentious)
- прост adj (not pretentious)
- скромен adj (not pretentious)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 樸實無華的 /朴实无华的 adj (not pretentious)
Danish
1 entries- uhøjtidelig adj (not pretentious)
Esperanto
2 entries- senafekta adj (not pretentious)
- senpretenda adj (not pretentious)
Finnish
1 entries- vaatimaton adj (not pretentious)
German
1 entries- unprätentiös adj (not pretentious)
Hungarian
2 entries- szerény adj (not pretentious)
- visszafogott adj (not pretentious)
Irish
1 entries- neamh-mhóiréiseach adj (not pretentious)
Macedonian
1 entries- непретенцио́зен adj (not pretentious)
Māori
2 entries- hūnguengue adj (not pretentious)
- whakamōwai adj (not pretentious)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- upretensiøs adj (not pretentious)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- upretensiøs adj (not pretentious)
Polish
3 entries- arcyskromny adj (not pretentious)
- arcyskromny adj (not pretentious)
- bezpretensjonalny adj (not pretentious)
Portuguese
1 entries- despretensioso adj (not pretentious)
Russian
1 entries- неприхотли́вый adj (not pretentious)
Swedish
3 entries- chosefri adj (not pretentious)
- opretentiös adj (not pretentious)
- sjåsfri adj (not pretentious)
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
His life story is, in point of fact, vastly more complex and many-sided than the following handful of unpretentious and unoriginal pages suggest.
Source: tatoeba (12093893)
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.
Source: wiktionary
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