Unassuming

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Unassuming \Un`as*sum"ing\, a.
     Not assuming; not bold or forward; not arrogant or presuming;
     humble; modest; retiring; as, an unassuming youth; unassuming
     manners.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  unassuming
       adj : not arrogant or presuming; "unassuming to a fault, skeptical
             about the value of his work"; "a shy retiring girl"
             [syn: {retiring}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  128 Moby Thesaurus words for "unassuming":
     Bohemian, affable, arcadian, authentic, bona fide, bucolic, candid,
     card-carrying, casual, cordial, degage, dinkum, direct, easy,
     easygoing, familiar, folksy, following the letter, free and easy,
     genuine, good, gracious, guileless, haymish, homely, homespun,
     homey, honest, honest-to-God, humble, inartificial, informal,
     irregular, lawful, legitimate, lifelike, literal, loose, lowly,
     meek, modest, native, natural, naturalistic, naturelike, offhand,
     offhanded, original, pastoral, plain, pure, real, realistic,
     relaxed, rightful, rural, simon-pure, simple, sincere, sociable,
     sterling, straightforward, sure-enough, true to life,
     true to nature, true to reality, unadorned, unadulterated,
     unaffected, unambitious, unartificial, unaspiring, unassumed,
     unbeguileful, unbeguiling, unboastful, uncalculating,
     unceremonious, uncolored, unconcocted, unconstrained,
     unconventional, uncopied, uncounterfeited, undeceitful,
     undeceiving, undeceptive, undesigning, undisguised, undisguising,
     undissembling, undissimulated, undissimulating, undistorted,
     unembellished, unexaggerated, unfabricated, unfanciful, unfeigned,
     unfeigning, unfictitious, unflattering, unimagined, unimitated,
     unimposing, uninvented, unobtrusive, unofficial, unostentatious,
     unpresuming, unpresumptuous, unpretended, unpretending,
     unpretentious, unqualified, unromantic, unsimulated, unspecious,
     unspoiled, unstudied, unsynthetic, untrimmed, unvarnished, verbal,
     verbatim, veridical, verisimilar, word-for-word