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unpretended

adj

Etymology

From un- + pretended.

Definitions

  1. Without pretense

    Without pretense; sincere; honest.

    • Children do not expect to be praized. They would never relax their effort for production. Theirs is a free and unpretended self-expression.
    • She looked up at Cliff, her face filled with unpretended pleasure.
    • And she did this with a sincere, unpretended love.

  2. Based in fact

    Based in fact; genuine; actual.

  3. Without complication or embellishment

    Without complication or embellishment; straightforward; simple and direct.

    • The front side of the porticoes is shaded by a double-curved eave-cornice of unpretended beauty.
    • Ilse Aichinger is a master of the “unpretended language.” Her works are marked by their unobtrusiveness and clarity.
    • How pleasant the little unpretended gatherings of book-societies, and the like; or those purely accidental meetings of a few people well known to each other!.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA