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- adjective Not
grandiose .
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un- + grandiose
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mollusque commented on the word ungrandiose
Too many recent non-communities have sprung fully shaped from the architects' and planners' drawing boards. Given the neo-brutalism of some of them, one is tempted to say "fully armed." The hallmarks of good design are now seen to lie with the ungrandiose and the unimposed.
--Barbara Ward, 1976, The home of man, p. 128
April 6, 2009