unadorned

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *né

Proto-Indo-European *n̥-

Proto-Germanic *un-

Proto-West Germanic *un-

Old English un-

Middle English un-

English un-

English adorned

English unadorned

From un- + adorned.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ʌˌnəˈdɔːnd/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /əˌnʌˈdɔːɹnd/

Adjective

unadorned (comparative more unadorned, superlative most unadorned)

1. Having no additional decoration or embellishment; plain and simple

   Synonyms: austere, unembellished; see also Thesaurus:unadorned

   • 2003, Christopher Paolini, “Prologue: Shade of Fear”, in Eragon, page 2:

     Her clothes were unadorned, yet her beauty was undiminished.

   • 2019, Roderick Beaton, Greece: Biography of a Modern Country, Penguin, published 2020, page 307:

     This was the era of the polykatoikia, the apartment block built of unadorned concrete and typically five or six storeys high.

   • 2019 October 1, Kate Quinn, Stephanie Dray, Laura Kamoie, E. Knight, Sophie Perinot, Heather Webb, Ribbons of Scarlet: A Novel of the French Revolution's Women‎^[1], HarperCollins, →ISBN:

     Though I wore only a plain somber gray Brunswick gown unadorned by ribbon or lace, and my uncle was dressed in black, the people knew aristocrats on sight.

Derived terms

• unadornedly
• unadornedness

Translations

Having no additional decoration

• Bulgarian: неукрасен (bg) (neukrasen)
• Dutch: kaal (nl)
• Esperanto: senornama
• Finnish: koristelematon
• French: dépouillé (fr), sobre (fr), sans fioritures (fr), sans ornements (fr), simple (fr)
• German: schmucklos (de), schlicht (de)
• Greek: αδιακόσμητος (el) (adiakósmitos)

  Ancient Greek: ἄκομψος (ákompsos)

• Hungarian: dísztelen (hu), díszítetlen (hu)
• Irish: lom
• Māori: kōkau, tōkau, tōtōkau
• Portuguese: desadornado (pt), sem adorno
• Scottish Gaelic: sìmplidh
• Tagalog: lisding
• Turkish: gösterişsiz (tr), süssüz (tr), sade (tr)

Verb

unadorned

1. simple past and past participle of unadorn