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Definition: Unadorned |
UnadornedAdjective1. Not decorated with something to increase its beauty or distinction. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "unadorned" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references) |
Synonym: UnadornedSynonym: undecorated (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: adorned (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Beauty | Pulchritude, form elegance, grace, beauty unadorned, natural beauty; symmetry; comeliness, fairness; Adjective: polish, gloss; good effect, good looks; belle tournure; trigness; bloom, brilliancy, radiance, splendor, gorgeousness, magnificence; sublimity, sublimification. |
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. |
Ugliness | Adjective: ugly, ugly as sin, ugly as a toad, ugly as a scarecrow, ugly as a dead monkey; plain, bald (unadorned); homely; ordinary, unornamental, inartistic; unsightly, unseemly, uncomely, unlovely; unshapely; sightless, seemless; not fit to be seen; |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Unadorned |
| English words defined with "unadorned": literal ♦ plain ♦ Rustic work ♦ Simple obligation ♦ Undecked, unembellished. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Beauty Unadorned (1913) | |
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Ovid | Mine is good faith that will yield to none, and says without reproach, and unadorned simplicity, and blushing modesty. |
Thomson | Loveliness needs not the aid of foreign ornament, but is, when unadorned, adorned the most. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| "Unadorned" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unadorned" is used about 59 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% | 59 | 44,010 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "unadorned": bald unadorned. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
unadorned | 9 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "unadorned"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | неукрасен (austere, grave, inornate, simple, undecked, unenlivened, unvarnished), без гарнитура. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 縵 (plain thin silk, slow). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | koristamaton. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | schmucklos (austere, plain, simple, undecorated, unembellished, ungarnished, unornamental). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αστόλιστοσ (untrimmed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | mesterkéletlen (artless, genial, homespun, ingenuous, naive, racy of the soil, simple, unstudied, untutored), díszítetlen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | lugu (plain, rube, simple), lugas (businesslike, simple). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | "一 (homogeneity, purity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | じゅ"いつ (homogeneity, purity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | gyn jesheen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | adornedunay неукрашенный (undecked), неприкрашенный (bare, unvarnished). (various references) neukrašen (inornate, undecked), neokićen. (various references) osmyckad, 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, uncomplicated, unvarnished). (various references) sade (artless, austere, bald, bare, chaste, frugal, frugally, homely, homespun, just, mere, merely, only, plain, pure, rustic, severe, simple, simplificative, sober, stark, unmixed, unsophisticated), süssüz (austere, plain, undecked, unvarnished), süslenmemiş. (various references) không trang trí; để tự nhiên trần tru"ng, không tô điểm (ungarnished). (various references) diaddurn (plain, rude). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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"Unadorned" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: undarned. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "unadorned" (pronounced u'nudô"rnd) |
| 6 | -u d ô" r n d | adorned. |
| 4 | -ô" r n d | forewarned, horned, mourned, scorned, warned. |
| 3 | -r n d | darned, shoehorned. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-d-e-n-n-o-r-u" | |
-2 letters: adorned, daunder, dendron, donnerd, duodena, redound, rondeau, rounded, underdo. | |
-3 letters: adnoun, adored, around, dander, darned, deodar, donned, droned, duenna, dunned, dunner, durned, enduro, neuron, nodder, undead, undoer, undone, unread. | |
-4 letters: adder, adore, adorn, anode, dared, denar, donna, donne, doura, dread, drone, dured, nuder, oared, odder, oread, radon, readd, redan, redon, rouen, round, udder. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-d-e-n-n-o-r-u" | |
+3 letters: nonredundant. | |
+4 letters: counterdemand, countermanded, uncoordinated. | |
+5 letters: counterdemands, uncontradicted. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Quotations: Familiar 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions | 9. Expressions: Internet 10. Translations: Modern 11. Derivations 12. Rhymes | 13. Anagrams 14. Bibliography |
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