Unvarnished

Synonyms for "unvarnished" (171 found)

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Closest matches (35)

direct arcadian ascetic austere authentic bald bare blank bona fide bucolic candid card carrying card-carrying common commonplace dinkum dry dull factual following the letter

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forthright frank genuine good guileless hard homely homespun honest honest-to-god

Adjective(5 words)

austere bare bare-bones chaste essential

Strong matches (51)

inartificial lawful lean legitimate lifelike literal matter-of-fact naked native natural naturalistic naturelike neat nude open openhearted original outspoken pastoral plain

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plain spoken plain-speaking plain-spoken prosaic prosing prosy pure real realistic rightful round rural rustic severe simon pure simon-pure simple simple-speaking sincere single minded sober spare spartan

Adjective(7 words)

inornate modest plain quiet severe simple spartan

Adjective(1 words)

plain

Related words (85)

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Adjective(8 words)

stripped down unadorned undecked unembellished unextravagant ungarnished unornamented untrimmed

Adjective(1 words)

unstained

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

4 relation types

coordinate

4 entries

uncoated unfinished unpainted unplated

derived from

1 entries

varnished

related to

5 entries

exaggerated natural unembellished unmodified varnish

similar

4 entries

direct unpainted

Translations

5 translations across 3 languages.

German

2 entries

unbehandelt adj (not having been coated with varnish)
ungeschminkt adj (natural, unmodified, unembellished, not exaggerated)

Manx

2 entries

gyn follid adj (not having been coated with varnish)
lhome adj (natural, unmodified, unembellished, not exaggerated)

Swedish

1 entries

osminkad adj (natural, unmodified, unembellished, not exaggerated)

Sample sentences

7 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

I need you to tell me the unvarnished truth.

Source: tatoeba (3608092)

It hurt Tom to hear the unvarnished truth. He didn't say another word to Mary after that.

Source: tatoeba (9093311)

unvarnished furniture

Source: wiktionary

She told the unvarnished truth.

Source: wiktionary

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