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Synonyms:
- natural, down-to-earth, sober, muted, unostentatious, modest, sheepish, unassuming, selfless, frank, toned-down, unflashy, unobtrusive, artless, stark, genuine, naive, folksy, modesty forbids/prevents me from doing something, though/if I say it myself, mild, submissive, honest, plebeian, unpretending, candid, sincere, meek, subdued, undemanding, bald, low-profile, quiet, understated, simple, uncluttered, prosaic, unpoetical, contrite, humble, ingenuous, self-effacing, true, repressed, straightforward, casual, blunt, intelligible, unpompous, homely, informal, unaffected, apologetic, lowly, real, outspoken, abashed, innocent, restrained, plain-spoken, plain, low-key, unadorned, demure, clear, ordinary, self-deprecating, conservative, direct
Examples:
- - His competitors never understood the sure growth of his success- he was so unpretentious in all that he did. - "Our Nervous Friends Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness", Robert S. Carroll
- - The old cemetery in Hyndsville, unlike the newer one in which folks take a sort of ghastly pride, one lot differing from another lot in glory, is an unpretentious place, enclosed by crumbling walls, the iron gates of which have rusted ajar. - "A Woman Named Smith", Marie Conway Oemler
- - A second and quite unpretentious gateway admitted them to a green meadow, in shape a rough semicircle, enclosed by ruinated walls. - "Brother Copas", Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
Antonyms:
- crooked, arty-crafty, gilded, deceitful, suspicious, razzle-dazzle, hifalutin, condescending, vainglorious, cultivated, devious, subtle, cosmopolitan, cocksure, ostentatious, splashy, chesty, slick, flashy, polished, smooth, high-sounding, highfaluting, self-complacent, knavish, high-and-mighty, crafty, civilized, dissimulating, cultured, feigned, high-flown, showy, sly, scheming, sharp, highfalutin, high-hat, underhanded, parvenue, jumped-up, worldly, mistrustful, grandiloquent, noisy, overblown, affected, confident, tasteless, slippery, ornate, manipulative, garish, tricky, self-important, hypocritical, double-dealing, dissembling, patronizing, superior, impudent, haughty, magisterial, high-handed, calculating, self-assertive, artsy-craftsy, shrewd, overconfident, aggressive, overdone, la-di-da, domineering, parvenu, tawdry, swank, foxy, inflated, portentous, immodest, fake, guileful, grandiose, assertive, overbearing, outgoing, wily, boastful, fancy, phony, dominant, flaring, disdainful, impertinent, hoity-toity, self-conceited, gaudy, strained, dishonest, designing, mealymouthed, stuck-up, egotistic, graceless, sycophantic, self-confident, huffy, brash, upstart, arrogant, self-asserting, vain, toplofty, egocentric, braggy, nouveau-riche, loud, two-faced, bold, deceptive, prideful, self-centered, flamboyant, meretricious, pompous, lordly, flattering, overweening, refined, fastuous, vulgar, arty, forward, presuming, self-obsessed, false, swaggering, rococo, pontificating, peremptory, cynical, worldly-wise, cheeky, pretentious, dominating, frilly, conceited, presumptuous, glitzy, audacious, supercilious, artful, imperious, sententious, canny, forced, inelegant, uppity, overwrought, trashy, shifty, tacky, wary, bumptious, arch, extroverted, cunning, uppish, sesquipedalian, sophisticated, unreserved, artificial, smug, insincere, assuming, uninhibited, saucy, narcissistic, self-satisfied, brassy, unctuous, critical, huffish, bombastic, egoistic, baroque, overdecorated, pontifical, skeptical
