Synonyms for unadorned
- adjective
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Adjective
Definitions
- adj. 1
Having no additional decoration or embellishment; plain and simple
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Perspicuous is often equivalent to plain, but plain never wholly loses the meaning of unadorned, so that we can say the style is perspicuous tho highly ornate, when we could not call it at once ornate and plain.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- bare I saw my uncle kill a scorpion with his bare hand.
- austere The Wadden Sea is a landscape of austere beauty.
- unvarnished I need you to tell me the unvarnished truth.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| unadorned | rising | |
| bare | rising | |
| austere | steady | |
| unvarnished | rising | |
| undecorated | steady |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 4 letters
- bare1, bald1
- 5 letters
- plain1, spare1, crude1
- 6 letters
- simple2, severe2, chaste1
- 7 letters
- spartan2, austere2
- 8 letters
- undecked, inornate
- 9 letters
- untrimmed
- 11 letters
- unvarnished3, undecorated, ungarnished
- 12 letters
- unornamented
- 13 letters
- unembellished
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (simple2 = 2 syllables).