Meanings
comparative more unflattering · superlative most unflattering
- Not flattering.
Daniel Halper, online editor at the conservative Weekly Standard and the author of Clinton, Inc., an unflattering portrait of the Clintons, theorizes Huma had little choice after the second sexting fiasco but to stick with Hillary.
2016 January 31, “Is Huma Abedin Hillary Clinton’s Secret Weapon or Her Next Big Problem?”, in Vanity Fair, retrieved 21 Jan 2016
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of unflatter
Synonyms & antonyms
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-
- Englishflattering
- Englishunflattering
From un- + flattering.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Czech nelichotivý
- nelichotivýnot flattering
Danish uflatterende
- uflatterendenot flattering
Norwegian Bokmål uflatterende
- uflatterendenot flattering
Polish niepochlebny
- niepochlebnynot flattering
Cite this entry
unflattering. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unflattering
“unflattering.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unflattering. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unflattering,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unflattering.
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