Unvarnished

Definition: Unvarnished

Unvarnished

Adjective

1. Not having a coating of stain or varnish.

2. Free from any effort to soften to disguise; "the plain and unvarnished truth"; "the unvarnished candor of old people and children".

Date "unvarnished" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1838. (references)

Synonyms: Unvarnished

Synonyms: plain (adj), unstained (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Plainness	Adjective: plain, simple; unornamented, unadorned, unvarnished; homely, homespun; neat; severe, chaste, pure, Saxon; commonplace, matter-of-fact, natural, prosaic.
Simplicity	Unadorned, bare, unornamented, undecked, ungarnished, unarranged, untrimmed, unvarnished.
Truth	Pure, natural, sound, sterling; unsophisticated, unadulterated, unvarnished, unalloyed, uncolored; in its true colors; pukka.
	Plain truth, honest truth, sober truth, naked truth, unalloyed truth, unqualified truth, stern truth, exact truth, intrinsic truth; nuda veritas; the very thing; not an -illusion; real Simon Pure; unvarnished tale, unvarnished truth; the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth; just the thing.
Veracity	The truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth; honest truth, sober truth; (fact); unvarnished tale; light of truth.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Unvarnished

English words defined with "unvarnished": plain. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Kif: an unvarnished history (reference) Robert Burns: The Man and the Poet; A Round, Unvarnished Account (reference) The punitive obsession: an unvarnished history of the English prison system (reference) The Unvarnished Doctrine: Locke, Liberalism, and the American Revolution (reference) The Unvarnished Gospels (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Unvarnished (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Unvarnished" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unvarnished" is used about 25 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%	25	69,787

Expressions using "unvarnished": plain unvarnished truth ♦ tell the unvarnished truth ♦ unvarnished tale ♦ unvarnished truth. Additional references.
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Language		Translations for "unvarnished"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		pa lustrim, i pazbukuruar (dry, unenlivened). (various references)

Arabic		‏غير مصقول (clumsiness, clumsy, coarse, inelegant, robust, unfinished, unpolished), ‏صريح (bare, bluff, candid, categorical, communicative, crude, direct, downright, expansive, explicit, flat, forthcoming, forthright, frank, genuine, guileless, honest, ingenuous, open, open-hearted, outright, outspoken, overt, palpable, plain, plain spoken, plump, point blank, pronounced, raw, round, simple-hearted, steady, straight, straightforward, transparent, unreserved), ‏بسيط (attic, chaste, crude, down to earth, elementary, homely, honest, innocent, low-browed, lowly, mere, modest, naive, natural, pastoral, petty, plain, primitive, provincial, rustic, silly, simple, simple minded, sparing, straightforward, unaffected, unpretentious, unsophisticated, with distortion). (various references)

Bulgarian		откровен (candid, forthright, guileless, ingenuous, open, openhearted, outright, plain, plainspoken, point blank, round, simple minded, simple-hearted, sincere, straight, transparent), неукрасен (austere, grave, inornate, simple, unadorned, undecked, unenlivened), нелустросан, нелакиран, неподправен (absolute, authentic, unadulterated, unalloyed, uncoined, unsophisticated). (various references)

Chinese		坦率 (Baldly, frankness, Outspoken, Outspokenness). (various references)

Czech		nenatřený. (various references)

Danish		lakudsparing (unvarnished space). (various references)

Dutch		vernis-uitsparing (unvarnished space). (various references)

Farsi		جلانخورده , بی جلا. (various references)

French		simple (unaffected, unostentatious, unsophisticated), pas compliqué (unsophisticated), non vernissé. (various references)

German		ungeschminkt (unadorned, unflattering, unvarnishedly). (various references)

Greek		αστίλβωτοσ. (various references)

Hebrew		פשוט (common, elementary, lowly, matter of fact, neat, obvious, ordinary, petty, plain, simple, simplification, simply, straightforward). (various references)

Hungarian		fényezetlen (unglazed). (various references)

Italian		non verniciato. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		有り�" (the unvarnished truth). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ありてい (the unvarnished truth). (various references)

Pig Latin		arnishedunvay

Portuguese		sincero (artless, candid, convinced, cordial, deep, direct, downright, dyed-in-the, earnest, frank, freehearted, guileless, heartfelt, hearty, honest, ingenuous, open-hearted, outright, outspoken, plain, plainspoken, simple, simple-hearted, sincere, single-hearted, straight, straightforward, strong, true, true-hearted, unaffected, undisguised, unfeigned, whole-hearted, whole-souled), 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, unostentatious, unsophisticated, unworldly), sem verniz, sem enfeites (bare), natural (apparent, artless, breathing, flowing, genuine, glib, inartificial, inbred, innate, lifelike, matter-of-course, native, natural, normal, outage, physical, plain, shirt-sleeve, spontaneous, unaffected, unconstrained, unlaboured, unsophisticated, unstrained, unstudied, untaught), não envernizado (unpolished). (various references)

Romanian		simplu (agrestic, artless, austere, average, bald, bare, common, easy, elementary, grave, home-bred, homely, homespun, humble, humbly, mere, modest, natural, neat, patriarchal, plain, plainly, primitive, pure, quiet, ready, russet, segregate, simple, simple minded, simply, single, singular, soft-headed, straight, straightforward, unaffected, unassuming, undisguised, unpretending, unpretentious, unsophisticated), neterminat (incomplete, unaccomplished, unfinished), nelustruit (unpolished), nelãcuit, natural (careless, certainly, easy, genuine, home-bred, innocent, kind, lifelike, matter of course, native, natural, naturally, physical, primitive, real, reasonably, simple, undisguised, unsophisticated). (various references)

Russian		нелакированный. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		nepremazan, nelakiran. (various references)

Spanish		sin barnizar. (various references)

Swedish		osminkad (uncolored, uncoloured), ofernissad, enkel (artless, bald, easy, elemental, elementary, facile, folksy, frugal, homely, homespun, humble, jejune, obvious, one-fold, open and shut, plain, primitive, rough, simple, single, straightforward, unadorned, uncomplicated). (various references)

Turkish		yalın (bald, bare, naked, nominative, plain, severe, simple, simplex, simplificative, vivid), verniksiz, salt (absolute, naked, pure, very), süssüz (austere, plain, unadorned, undecked), cilasız (rough, unfinished, unpolished), çıplak (bare, bleak, innocent of clothes, naked, nude, unaided, unclad, uncovered, undressed). (various references)

Ukrainian		нелакований, неприкрашений (bald, bare). (various references)

Vietnamese		tự nhiên (artless, hair, natively, nature, off-hand, off-handed, secundum naturam), không che đậy (unconcealed, undissembled), không đánh véc ni. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"Unvarnished" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ungarnished. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "unvarnished" (pronounced unvÄ"rnisht)
7	-v Ä" r n i sh t	varnished.
6	-Ä" r n i sh t	garnished.
4	-n i sh t	admonished, astonished, banished, diminished, finished, punished, refinished, replenished, semifinished, undiminished, unfinished, unpunished, vanished.
3	-i sh t	accomplished, anguished, blemished, brandished, demolished, distinguished, embellished, established, extinguished, flourished, impoverished, languished, lavished, nourished, perished, polished, published, reestablished, refurbished, relinquished, relished, undistinguished, unpublished, vanquished.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-e-h-i-n-n-r-s-u-v"
	-1 letter: unravished.
	-2 letters: unhandier, varnished.
	-3 letters: aneurins, denarius, enravish, insnared, invaders, ravished, unhaired, unraised, unrinsed, unshared, unshaved, unshaven, unvaried, uranides, vanished, vanisher.
	-4 letters: adviser, airshed, aneurin, asunder, danseur, dashier, dervish, dhurnas, dinners, duennas, durians, endrins, evanish, handier, hardens, hardies, hernias, hinders, hurdies, innards, insaner, insnare, insured, inurned, invader, invades, nardine, nerdish, randies, ravined, ravines, residua.
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