Unostentatious

Definition: Unostentatious

Unostentatious

Adjective

1. Not ostentatious; "his unostentatious office"; "unostentatious elegance".

2. Exhibiting restrained good taste; "the room is pleasant and understated".

3. Free from ostentation or pretension; "the restrained elegance of the room".

Date "unostentatious" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1831. (references)

Synonyms: Unostentatious

Synonyms: modest (adj), restrained (adj), understated (adj), unpretentious (adj). (additional references)

Antonym: ostentatious (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Modesty	Unpretending, unpretentious; unobtrusive, unassuming, unostentatious, unboastful, unaspiring; poor in spirit.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Unostentatious

English words defined with "unostentatious": unpretentious. (references)

"Unostentatious" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unostentatious" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	5	157,705

Language		Translations for "unostentatious"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		i padukshëm (concealed, imperceptible, inappreciable, invisible, noteless, obscure, occult, unseen). (various references)

Arabic		‏غير متباه, ‏غير نتفاخر. (various references)

Bulgarian		ненатрапчив (unobtrusive), небиещ на очи, непоказен. (various references)

Czech		nenápadný (inconspicuous, quiet, stealthy, unobtrusive). (various references)

French		simple (unaffected, unsophisticated, unvarnished), sans ostentation. (various references)

German		schlicht (artless, course, frugal, homebred, homespun, plain, quiet, rude, simple, sober, unadorned, uncluttered, unpretentious, unpretentiously, unsophisticated), unaufdringlich (decent, discreet, retiringly, subtle, unassuming, understated, unobtrusive). (various references)

Hungarian		nem kérkedõ. (various references)

Indonesian		sederhana (artless, austere, frugal, homely, humble, plain, simple, temperate, unpretentious), bersahaja (unpretentious). (various references)

Italian		senza esigenza (undemanding, unpretentious). (various references)

Pig Latin		ostentatiousunay

Portuguese		simples (artless, chaste, classic, classical, convenient, easy, frugal, green, guileless, homely, homespun, humble, ingenuous, innocent, inornate, matter-of-course, mere, modest, natural, onefold, outage, plain, primary, pure, regular, self-effacing, sheer, shirt-sleeve, simple, simple-hearted, single, singles, smattering, soft, sole, solitary, straightforward, unaffected, unassuming, unlaboured, unsophisticated, unvarnished, unworldly), sem ostentação, modesto (blushful, coy, demure, homely, humble, lowly, modest, plain, self-effacing, shamefaced, unassertive, unassuming, unpretending, unpretentious). (various references)

Russian		ненавязчивый (unobtrusive). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		skroman (diffident, douce, frugal, humble, modest, retiring, self-effacing, unassuming, unpretending, unpretentious), nerazmetljiv. (various references)

Spanish		modesto (demure, inconspicuous, lower, modest, modeste, retiring, unassuming, undemanding, unpretentious). (various references)

Turkish		gösterişsiz (chaste, conservative, fluffy, homely, homespun, modest, plain, poor looking, rustic, simple, sober, undemanding, unpretending, unpretentious). (various references)

Vietnamese		không phô trương, không b� y vẽ, giản dị (homely, modest). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "unostentatious": unostentatiously. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-i-n-n-o-o-s-s-t-t-t-u-u"
	-2 letters: ostentations, ostentatious, sustentation.
	-3 letters: ostentation, outstations.
	-4 letters: attentions, outstation.
	-5 letters: attention, autunites, intonates, nattiness, notations, nutations, nuttiness, ostinatos, outstates, outstunts, sensation, snootiest, snottiest, snoutiest, sostenuti, sostenuto, stannites, tattiness, tinstones, toastiest.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-i-n-n-o-o-s-s-t-t-t-u-u"
	+2 letters: unostentatiously.
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