Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Exhibiting no pretensions, boastfulness, or ostentation; modest.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not assuming; not bold or forward; not arrogant; modest; not forthputting; retiring.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not assuming; not bold or forward; not arrogant or presuming; humble; modest; retiring
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- adjective
modest and having nopretensions orostentation
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective not arrogant or presuming
Etymologies
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Examples
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Along the way he meets many spiritual messengers, who come in unassuming forms such as a camel driver and a well-read Englishman.
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I have to give them props for mindblowingly good and cheap vegetarian Indian tucked away in unassuming strip malls, Diddy Reese ice cream sandwiches, numerous restaurants specializing in Okonomiyaki (Japanese pancakes), and the tacos!!!
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It is unassuming from the outside, but the food is fantastic (although a bit pricey).
WirelessTrips.com Campground Review: Herkimer KOA – Herkimer, New York 2007
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Though the houses individually appear relatively unassuming from the outside, the complex as a whole is far from modest.
Being Geraldo 2005
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Though the houses individually appear relatively unassuming from the outside, the complex as a whole is far from modest.
Being Geraldo 2005
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NO MATTER HOW hard you try you will never be able to grasp just how tiny, how spatially unassuming, is a proton.
Excerpt: A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson 2003
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The grass-blade rising from its sheath in unassuming perfection is more marvellous in its immanent beauty than the two-edged blade of a legendary angel sword.
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Yet, when she stood in unassuming simplicity before us, playing with our children, or with girlish assiduity performing little kind offices for Idris, one wondered in what fair lineament of her pure loveliness, in what soft tone of her thrilling voice, so much of heroism, sagacity and active goodness resided.
II.8 1826
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Parks may have been "unassuming" -- this was praise back then -- but she became a tough-minded admirer of Malcolm X, and an outspoken critic of sexism within the movement itself.
Unforgettable 2007
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Thieves can use these lists to call unassuming people and pose as collectors.
Robert Siciliano: Tax Related Identity Theft Scams up 300% Robert Siciliano 2011
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