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UNADORNED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does unadorned mean?
• UNADORNED (adjective)
The adjective UNADORNED has 1 sense:
1. not decorated with something to increase its beauty or distinction
Familiarity information: UNADORNED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Not decorated with something to increase its beauty or distinction
Synonyms:
unadorned; undecorated
Similar:
bare; plain; spare; unembellished; unornamented (lacking embellishment or ornamentation)
untufted (not adorned with tufts)
Also:
unclothed (not wearing clothing)
plain (not elaborate or elaborated; simple)
Antonym:
adorned (provided with something intended to increase its beauty or distinction)
Context examples
Miss Woodhouse appeared more than once, and never without a something of pleasing connexion, either a compliment to her taste, or a remembrance of what she had said; and in the very last time of its meeting her eye, unadorned as it was by any such broad wreath of gallantry, she yet could discern the effect of her influence and acknowledge the greatest compliment perhaps of all conveyed.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
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