Unvarnished

3 definitions found

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

  Unvarnished \Unvarnished\
     See {varnished}.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  unvarnished


       adj 1: not having a coating of stain or varnish [syn: {unstained}]
       2: free from any effort to soften to disguise; "the plain and
          unvarnished truth"; "the unvarnished candor of old people
          and children" [syn: {plain}]

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

  135 Moby Thesaurus words for "unvarnished":
     Spartan, arcadian, ascetic, austere, authentic, bald, bare, blank,
     bona fide, bucolic, candid, card-carrying, common, commonplace,
     dinkum, direct, dry, dull, following the letter, frank, genuine,
     good, guileless, homely, homespun, honest, honest-to-God,
     inartificial, lawful, lean, legitimate, lifelike, literal,
     matter-of-fact, naked, native, natural, naturalistic, naturelike,
     neat, nude, open, openhearted, original, outspoken, pastoral,
     plain, plain-speaking, plain-spoken, prosaic, prosing, prosy, pure,
     real, realistic, rightful, rural, rustic, severe, simon-pure,
     simple, simple-speaking, sincere, sober, spare, stark, sterling,
     straight, straightforward, sure-enough, true to life,
     true to nature, true to reality, unadorned, unadulterated,
     unaffected, unarrayed, unartificial, unassumed, unassuming,
     unbeguileful, unbeguiling, uncalculating, uncolored, uncomplicated,
     unconcealed, unconcocted, uncopied, uncounterfeited, undeceitful,
     undeceiving, undeceptive, undecked, undecorated, undesigning,
     undisguised, undisguising, undissembled, undissembling,
     undissimulated, undissimulating, undistorted, undressed,
     unembellished, unexaggerated, unfabricated, unfanciful, unfeigned,
     unfeigning, unfictitious, unflattering, unfurbished, ungarnished,
     unimaginative, unimagined, unimitated, uninvented, unornamented,
     unpoetical, unpretended, unpretending, unpretentious, unqualified,
     unromantic, unsimulated, unsophisticated, unspecious, unspoiled,
     unsynthetic, untrimmed, verbal, verbatim, veridical, verisimilar,
     word-for-word