'Unassuming' definitions:
Definition of 'unassuming'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Not arrogant or presuming; "unassuming to a fault, skeptical about the value of his work"; "a shy retiring girl" [syn: retiring, unassuming]
Definition of 'Unassuming'
From: GCIDE
- Unassuming \Un`as*sum"ing\, a. Not assuming; not bold or forward; not arrogant or presuming; humble; modest; retiring; as, an unassuming youth; unassuming manners. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'unassuming'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- affable,
- arcadian,
- authentic,
- Bohemian,
- bona fide,
- bucolic,
- candid,
- card-carrying,
- casual,
- cordial,
- degage,
- dinkum,
- direct,
- easy,
- easygoing,
- familiar,
- folksy,
- following the letter,
- free and easy,
- genuine,
- good,
- gracious,
- guileless,
- haymish,
- homely,
- homespun,
- homey,
- honest,
- honest-to-God,
- humble,
- inartificial,
- informal,
- irregular,
- lawful,
- legitimate,
- lifelike,
- literal,
- loose,
- lowly,
- meek,
- modest,
- native,
- natural,
- naturalistic,
- naturelike,
- offhand,
- offhanded,
- original,
- pastoral,
- plain,
- pure,
- real,
- realistic,
- relaxed,
- rightful,
- rural,
- simon-pure,
- simple,
- sincere,
- sociable,
- sterling,
- straightforward,
- sure-enough,
- true to life,
- true to nature,
- true to reality,
- unadorned,
- unadulterated,
- unaffected,
- unambitious,
- unartificial,
- unaspiring,
- unassumed,
- unbeguileful,
- unbeguiling,
- unboastful,
- uncalculating,
- unceremonious,
- uncolored,
- unconcocted,
- unconstrained,
- unconventional,
- uncopied,
- uncounterfeited,
- undeceitful,
- undeceiving,
- undeceptive,
- undesigning,
- undisguised,
- undisguising,
- undissembling,
- undissimulated,
- undissimulating,
- undistorted,
- unembellished,
- unexaggerated,
- unfabricated,
- unfanciful,
- unfeigned,
- unfeigning,
- unfictitious,
- unflattering,
- unimagined,
- unimitated,
- unimposing,
- uninvented,
- unobtrusive,
- unofficial,
- unostentatious,
- unpresuming,
- unpresumptuous,
- unpretended,
- unpretending,
- unpretentious,
- unqualified,
- unromantic,
- unsimulated,
- unspecious,
- unspoiled,
- unstudied,
- unsynthetic,
- untrimmed,
- unvarnished,
- verbal,
- verbatim,
- veridical,
- verisimilar,
- word-for-word