Meanings
comparative more unpretentious · superlative most unpretentious
- Simple, humble, not pretentious, plain.
Cheltenham Spa station had opened in June 1840 as Cheltenham, being renamed Cheltenham Spa (Lansdown) in February 1925 and taking on its modern name of Cheltenham Spa in January 1948 - an oddity in itself as its town is plain, unpretentious Cheltenham.
2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Cheltenham (1928)”, in RAIL, number 947, page 60Synonyms: humble
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveSimple, humble, not pretentious, plain.
More synonyms by meaning
adjectivenot ostentatious
adjectiveexhibiting restrained good taste
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-
- Englishpretentious
- Englishunpretentious
From un- + pretentious.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Bulgarian прост, скромен
- прост (prost)not pretentious
- скромен (skromen)not pretentious
- непретенциозен (nepretenciozen)not pretentious
Chinese Mandarin 樸實無華的 /朴实无华的
- 樸實無華的 /朴实无华的 (pǔshí wúhuá de)not pretentious
Danish uhøjtidelig
- uhøjtidelignot pretentious
Esperanto senafekta, senpretenda
- senafektanot pretentious
- senpretendanot pretentious
Finnish vaatimaton
- vaatimatonnot pretentious
German unprätentiös
- unprätentiösnot pretentious
Hungarian szerény, visszafogott
- szerénynot pretentious
- visszafogottnot pretentious
Irish neamh-mhóiréiseach
- neamh-mhóiréiseachnot pretentious
Māori whakamōwai, hūnguengue
- whakamōwainot pretentious
- hūnguenguenot pretentious
Norwegian Bokmål upretensiøs
- upretensiøsnot pretentious
Polish arcyskromny, bezpretensjonalny
- arcyskromnynot pretentious
- bezpretensjonalnynot pretentious
Portuguese despretensioso
- despretensiosonot pretentious
Russian неприхотли́вый
- неприхотли́вый (neprixotlívyj)not pretentious
Swedish opretentiös, chosefri
- opretentiösnot pretentious
- chosefrinot pretentious
- sjåsfrinot pretentious
Cite this entry
unpretentious. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unpretentious
“unpretentious.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unpretentious. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unpretentious,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unpretentious.
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