Meanings
- not comparableNot ornamented; without ornament.
The many repetitions of unornamented locomotor movement describing great diagonals do eventually wear.
1988 April 29, Cerinda Survant, “The Invisible Dancer”, in Chicago Reader1 more example
Well, I lay it down, first, that a book quite unornamented can look actually and positively beautiful, and not merely un-ugly, if it be, so to say, architecturally good, which, by the by, need not add much to its price […]
1893, William Morris, The Ideal BookSynonyms: unadorned, unembellished, austere, bare, chaste, inornate, modest, plain
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveNot ornamented; without ornament.
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-
- Englishornamented
- Englishunornamented
From un- + ornamented.
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
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