unostentatious

Speech parts

1. unostentatious - Adjective

2. unostentatious - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

not ostentatious

exhibiting restrained good taste

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

unpretentious understated unpretending meek coy small natural simple bashful ordinary plain reserved informal modest quiet
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Antonyms

ostentatious bow-wow deluxe expensive elaborate evident
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Phrases with the word

less unostentatious

Examples

The miracles of Christ were studiously performed in the most unostentatious way. He seemed anxious to veil His majesty under the love with which they were wrought. William Ellery Channing

The higher powers of the reflective intellect are more decidedly and more usefully tasked by the unostentatious game of draughts than by all the elaborate frivolity of chess. Edgar Allan Poe

The materials of the first temple were made ready in solitude. Those of the last also must be shaped in retirement; in the silence of the heart; in the quietness of home; in the practice of unostentatious duty. Henry Giles

Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious. Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

Though his partnership in the chemical work brought him considerable wealth, it made no difference in the quiet unostentatious life of a philosopher, which he had led ever since he settled in Edinburgh. James Hutton

his unostentatious office Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

unossified unostensible unostentation unostentatiously unostentatiousness unostracized