Meanings
comparative more unglamorous · superlative most unglamorous
- Not glamorous; humdrum or prosaic.
And at the unglamorous end of upgrade work, it plans to improve drainage.
2022 November 16, Philip Haigh, “Trans-Pennine... transformative”, in RAIL, number 970, page 381 more example
Whitney is absorbed especially by Dublin's unglamorous interstitial zones: the new housing estates and labyrinths of roads, watercourses and railways where the city peters into its commuter belt.
2014 August 23, Neil Hegarty, “Hidden City: Adventures and Explorations in Dublin by Karl Whitney, review: 'a necessary corrective' [print version: Re-Joycing in Dublin, p. R25]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review)
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivenot challenging; dull and lacking excitement
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-
- Englishglamor
- Proto-Indo-European*h₃ed-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₃édosder.?
- Englishglamorous
- Englishunglamorous
Translations
Danish uglamorøs
- uglamorøsnot glamorous
Norwegian Bokmål uglamorøs
- uglamorøsnot glamorous
Swedish oglamorös
- oglamorösnot glamorous
Cite this entry
unglamorous. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unglamorous
“unglamorous.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unglamorous. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unglamorous,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unglamorous.
Source: unglamorous on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.