Meanings
comparative more unembellished · superlative most unembellished
- Plain, unadorned, or simple.
Thus passed the last of the North Wales Narrow Gauge locomotives, and one of the few American-built locomotives to survive in Great Britain; the sadly cropped though once elegant Russell, and the unembellished yet useful Yankee plug-ugly.
1941 October, C. Hamilton Ellis, Charles E. Lee, “The Welsh Highland Railway—III”, in Railway Magazine, page 435Synonyms: austere, bare, modest, undecorated, unadorned, austere, bare, chaste · Antonyms: adorned, decorate, complicated, bedizened, blatant, blingish, brash, campy
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivePlain, unadorned, or simple.
More synonyms by meaning
adjectivelacking embellishment or ornamentation
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*né
- Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
- Proto-Germanic*un-
- Proto-West Germanic*un-
- Old Englishun-
- Middle Englishun-
- Englishun-
- Englishembellished
- Englishunembellished
From un- + embellished.
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
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