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UNVARNISHED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unvarnished mean? 

UNVARNISHED (adjective)
  The adjective UNVARNISHED has 2 senses:

1. not having a coating of stain or varnishplay

2. free from any effort to soften to disguiseplay

  Familiarity information: UNVARNISHED used as an adjective is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


UNVARNISHED (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Not having a coating of stain or varnish

Synonyms:

unstained; unvarnished

Similar:

unpainted (not having a coat of paint or badly in need of a fresh coat)


Sense 2

Meaning:

Free from any effort to soften to disguise

Synonyms:

plain; unvarnished

Context example:

the unvarnished candor of old people and children

Similar:

direct (straightforward in means or manner or behavior or language or action)


 Context examples 


Arraigned at my own bar, Memory having given her evidence of the hopes, wishes, sentiments I had been cherishing since last night—of the general state of mind in which I had indulged for nearly a fortnight past; Reason having come forward and told, in her own quiet way a plain, unvarnished tale, showing how I had rejected the real, and rabidly devoured the ideal;—I pronounced judgment to this effect:—That a greater fool than Jane Eyre had never breathed the breath of life; that a more fantastic idiot had never surfeited herself on sweet lies, and swallowed poison as if it were nectar.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)



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