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unpretentiousadjective free from any intent to deceive or impress othersa simple and unpretentious account about growing up in the rural South artless, genuine, guileless, honest, ingenuous, innocent, naive(or naïve), natural, real, simple, sincere, true, unaffected, unpretending childlike, dewy-eyed, gee-whiz, impressionable, inexperienced, malleable, persuadable, persuasible, simpleminded, unsophisticated, unworldly, wide-eyedspontaneous, unforced, unstudiedcandid, direct, frank, free, free-spoken, open, openhearted, plain, plainspoken, single-minded, straight, straightforward, unguardedtrustful, trustingexploitable, gullible(also gullable), susceptible, unwary on the level affected, artful, artificial, assuming, dishonest, dissembling, dissimulating, fake, false, guileful, insincere, phony(also phoney), pretentious critical, cynical, mistrustful, skeptical, suspicious, warycosmopolitan, sophisticated, worldly, worldly-wisecivilized, cultivated, cultured, polished, refinedcrooked, deceitful, deceptive, devious, double-dealing, hypocritical, manipulative, two-facedarch, calculating, canny, crafty, cunning, designing, foxy, knavish, scheming, sharp, shifty, shrewd, slick, slippery, sly, subtle, tricky, underhanded, wilyflattering, mealymouthed, smooth, sycophantic, unctuousfeigned, forced, strained not excessively showylives in a rather unpretentious house for someone so wealthy conservative, low-key(also low-keyed), muted, quiet, repressed, restrained, sober, subdued, toned-down, understated, unflashy appropriate, becoming, fit, fitting, proper, suitablemodest, plain, simple, unadorned, undecoratedinconspicuous, unnoticeable, unobtrusivegraceful, handsome, refined, tastefuldrab, mousy(or mousey)practical, sensible flamboyant, flaring, flashy, garish, gaudy, glitzy, loud, noisy, ostentatious, razzle-dazzle, splashy, swank(or swanky) meretriciousgraceless, inelegant, tacky, tasteless, tawdry, trashy, vulgarbaroque, fancy, frilly, gilded(or gilt), ornate, rococooverdecorated, overdone, overwrought not having or showing any feelings of superiority, self-assertiveness, or showinessthe unpretentious disposition of an award-winning scientist who has nothing to prove to anyone demure, down-to-earth, humble, lowly, meek, modest, unassuming acquiescent, compliant, deferential, resigned, submissive, unaggressive, unassertive, yieldingcowering, cringing, shrinkingingenuous, naive(or naïve), plain, simple, unaffectedbashful, diffident, introverted, mousy(or mousey), overmodest, passive, quiet, reserved, retiring, sheepish, shy, subdued, timid, unobtrusiveaw-shucks, self-deprecating, self-deprecatory, self-effacing arrogant, bumptious, chesty, conceited, egotistic(or egotistical), fastuous, haughty, highfalutin(also hifalutin), high-and-mighty, high-handed, high-hat, hoity-toity, huffish, huffy, imperious, lordly, overweening, peremptory, pompous, presuming, presumptuous, pretentious, self-asserting, self-assertive, supercilious, superior, toplofty(also toploftical), uppish, uppity aggressive, assertive, audacious, bold, brash, brassy, cheeky, forward, impertinent, impudent, saucycocksure, cocky, confident, hubristic, overconfident, self-confidentegocentric, egoistic(also egoistical), narcissistic, prideful, self-affected, self-centered, self-complacent, self-conceited, self-congratulatory, self-contented, self-engrossed, self-important, self-obsessed, self-pleased, self-satisfied, smug, stuck-up, swelled-headedboastful, bombastic, braggy, swaggering, vain, vaingloriouscondescending, disdainful, dominant, dominating, domineering, magisterial, overbearing, patronizing, pontificatingflamboyant, ostentatious, showyextroverted(also extraverted), immodest, outgoing, uninhibited, unreserved in 1838 |