Unpretentious

Definition: Unpretentious

Unpretentious

Adjective

1. Lacking pretension or affectation; "an unpretentious country church"; "her quiet unpretentious demeanor".

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

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

Date "unpretentious" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1869. (references)

Synonyms: Unpretentious

Synonyms: understated (adj), unostentatious (adj). (additional references)

Antonyms: ostentatious (adj), pretentious (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: Unpretentious

English words defined with "unpretentious": domesticity ♦ homely, humble ♦ plainness ♦ unpretentiously. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Unpretentious Pose: The Work of E.O. Goldbeck, a People's Photographer (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Unpretentious" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 98.88% of the time. "Unpretentious" is used about 89 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)	98.88%	88	35,154
Noun (proper)	1.12%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	89	N/A

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Language		Translations for "unpretentious"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		modest (decent, decently, demure, diffident, discreet, humble, lowly, modest, neat, quiet, unassertive, unobtrusive), i thjeshtë (abecedarian, artless, austere, bare, chaste, childlike, common, easy, elementary, enlisted, folksy, foolproof, Hick, home-bred, homely, homespun, humble, inelaborate, informal, ingenuous, inornate, mere, modest, native, natural, neat, not mingled, onefold, ordinary, plain, prime, primitive, private, pure, quotidian, rude, russet, rustic, simple, unaffected, unassuming, unceremonious, unpretending, unsophisticated, very). (various references)

Arabic		‏متواضع (humble, inconsiderable, insignificant, little, modest, negligible, slight, small, trivial, unassuming), ‏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, unsophisticated, unvarnished, with distortion). (various references)

Bulgarian		скромен (abstemious, chaste, conservative, decent, decorous, demure, frugal, humble, maidenlike, maidenly, mean, modest, obscure, quakerish, quiet, retiring, shamefaced, simple, small, unambitious, unassuming, unobtrusive, unpresuming, unpretending), непринуден (affable, artless, childlike, easy, familiar, free, go-as-you-please, informal, rustic, simple, spontaneous, unconstrained, unlabored, unlaboured, unpretending, unstarched, unstrained, unstudied, unstuffy), прост (abc, artless, childlike, common, commonplace, easy, elemental, elementary, funky, grave, homelike, homespun, humble, illiberal, low, native, onefold, open and shut, ordinary, plain, prime, primitive, rugged, rustic, simple, sleazy, straight, straightforward, uncomplicated, vulgar). (various references)

Chinese		质朴 (funky, unpretentiously, unpretentiousness). (various references)

Czech		skromný (abstemious, demure, frugal, humble, limited, lowly, modest, reserved, retiring, unassuming), prostý (austere, chaste, coarse, frugal, homely, naked, plain, rustic, simple, single, sober, unaffected, unsophisticated, unworldly, vulgar). (various references)

Farsi		فروتن (Courteous, Daft, Humble, Low, Lowly, Meek, Modest, Slight, Submissive, Unassuming, Venal), محقر (Humble, Little, Small), نامتظاهر, خالی ازجلال وابهت , بی تکلف (Simple, Unassuming). (various references)

Finnish		vaatimaton (modest, simple, unassuming). (various references)

French		sans prétention (unassuming). (various references)

German		anspruchslos (downmarket, homely, low brow, lowbrow, modest, plain, simple, unambitious, unassuming, unassumingly, undemanding, undiscerning, undiscriminating, unpretending, unpretendingly). (various references)

Greek		ταπεινόσ (abject, humble, low, lowly, menial, reverent, unobtrusive). (various references)

Hungarian		egyszerû (austere, easy, homely, inglorious, mean, modest, open and shut, primitive, simple, undress, unsophisticated). (various references)

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

Italian		modesto (chaste, coy, demure, diffident, homely, humble, inconspicuous, lowly, moderate, modest, plain, quiet, self-effacing, temperate, unassuming). (various references)

Pig Latin		etentiousunpray

Portuguese		sem pretensões (self-effacing, unassuming, unpretending), modesto (blushful, coy, demure, homely, humble, lowly, modest, plain, self-effacing, shamefaced, unassertive, unassuming, unostentatious, unpretending), despretensioso (humble, modest, unpretending). (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, unsophisticated, unvarnished), modest (cheap, demure, diffident, discreet, frugal, grave, homely, humble, humbly, low, lowly, maiden, maidenly, modest, plain, quakerish, quiet, retiring, simple, unassuming, unobtrusive, unpretending). (various references)

Russian		скромный (decent, demure, hamble, humble, low life, mean, modest, self-effacing, unassertive, unassuming, unobtrusive, unostentatious, unpretending). (various references)

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

Spanish		no pretencioso (unassuming). (various references)

Swedish		opretentiös, blygsam (humble, lowly, modest, unassuming), anspråkslös (humble, informal, lowly, modest, quiet, unambitious, unassuming). (various references)

Turkish		mütevazi (demiss, hat in hand, humble, meek, modest, pudent, small, unassuming, unobtrusive, unpresuming, unpretending), iddiasız (fluffy, go-as-you-please, unassuming, undemanding, unpretending), gösterişsiz (chaste, conservative, fluffy, homely, homespun, modest, plain, poor looking, rustic, simple, sober, undemanding, unostentatious, unpretending), alçakgönüllü (decent, demiss, frugal, hat in hand, humble, low, lowly, meek, meek-spirited, modest, pudent, simple, simple minded, simple-hearted, submissive, unassuming, unpresuming, unpretending). (various references)

Ukrainian		непретензійний. (various references)

Vietnamese		khiêm tốn (humble, modest, unassuming, unobstrusive, unpresuming, unpresumptuous, unpretending), không tự phụ (unassuming, unpresuming, unpresumptuous, unpretending), không kiêu căng (unpretending). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "unpretentious": unpretentiously, unpretentiousness, unpretentiousnesses. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Unpretentious" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: unpretenious. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "unpretentious" (pronounced u'nprēte"nshus)
9	-p r ē t e" n sh u s	pretentious.
6	-t e" n sh u s	contentious.
5	-e" n sh u s	conscientious, tendentious.
4	-n sh u s	conscious, subconscious, unconscious.
3	-sh u s	ambitious, anxious, atrocious, audacious, auspicious, capacious, capricious, cautious, delicious, efficacious, expeditious, facetious, factitious, fallacious, ferocious, fictitious, flirtatious, fractious, gracious, hellacious, herbaceous, inauspicious, infectious, injudicious, judicious, loquacious, luscious, malicious, nauseous, noxious, nutritious, obnoxious, ostentatious, overambitious, pernicious, precious, precocious, predaceous, propitious, pugnacious, rambunctious, rapacious, repetitious, salacious, sebaceous, seditious, semiprecious, spacious, specious, superstitious, surreptitious, suspicious, tenacious, vexatious, vicious, vivacious, voracious.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-e-i-n-n-o-p-r-s-t-t-u-u"
	-2 letters: pretentious, septentrion, turpentines.
	-3 letters: pirouettes, pretension, retentions, turpentine, uninterest.
	-4 letters: entrepots, entropies, eruptions, interpose, neutrinos, nutrients, outpreens, outsprint, penitents, pensioner, penurious, pertinent, pinsetter, pirouette, potteries, preunions, preunites, printouts, proustite, retention, spinneret, tenorites, tensioner, turnstone.
	-5 letters: enterons, entrepot, eruption, esurient, insetter, intenser, interest, internes, intoners, isoprene, nepotist, neurines, neurones, neutrino, neutrons, noisette, notturni, nutrient, oneriest.
	Words containing the letters "e-e-i-n-n-o-p-r-s-t-t-u-u"
	+2 letters: unpretentiously.
	+4 letters: unpretentiousness.
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