unadorned


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un·a·dorned

 (ŭn′ə-dôrnd′)
adj.
Without adornment or embellishment; simple or plain.
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unadorned

(ˌʌnəˈdɔːnd)
adj
not decorated; plain: a bare unadorned style.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Adj.1.unadorned - not decorated with something to increase its beauty or distinctionunadorned - not decorated with something to increase its beauty or distinction
unclothed - not wearing clothing
plain - not elaborate or elaborated; simple; "plain food"; "stuck to the plain facts"; "a plain blue suit"; "a plain rectangular brick building"
adorned, decorated - provided with something intended to increase its beauty or distinction
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unadorned

adjective plain, simple, severe, stark, straightforward, restrained, unfussy, unembellished, unornamented The room is typically simple and unadorned.
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unadorned

adjective
1. Without addition, decoration, or qualification:
2. Of a plain and unsophisticated nature:
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unadorned

[ˈʌnəˈdɔːnd] ADJsin adorno, sencillo
beauty unadornedla hermosura sin adorno
the unadorned truthla verdad lisa y llana
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unadorned

[ˌʌnəˈdɔːrnd] adjsans ornement
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unadorned

adjschlicht; woman’s beautynatürlich; truthungeschminkt; proseschmucklos
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unadorned

[ˌʌnəˈdɔːnd] adjdisadorno/a
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
References in classic literature ?
As she was entirely unadorned I could not even guess her station in life, though it was evident that she was either a prisoner or slave in her present environment.
As she looked down from above upon his almost naked body, trapped only in the simplest of unadorned harness, and saw the play of the lithe muscles beneath the red-bronze skin, and witnessed the quick and delicate play of his sword point, to her sense of obligation was added a spontaneous admission of admiration that was but the natural tribute of a woman to skill and bravery and, perchance, some trifle to manly symmetry and strength.
"Because, John Carter," she replied, "nearly every planet and star having atmospheric conditions at all approaching those of Barsoom, shows forms of animal life almost identical with you and me; and, further, Earth men, almost without exception, cover their bodies with strange, unsightly pieces of cloth, and their heads with hideous contraptions the purpose of which we have been unable to conceive; while you, when found by the Tharkian warriors, were entirely undisfigured and unadorned.
Miss Woodhouse appeared more than once, and never without a something of pleasing connexion, either a compliment to her taste, or a remembrance of what she had said; and in the very last time of its meeting her eye, unadorned as it was by any such broad wreath of gallantry, she yet could discern the effect of her influence and acknowledge the greatest compliment perhaps of all conveyed.
It relates, with the usual terse and unadorned power of really primitive poetry, how the hero Beowulf, coming over the sea to the relief of King Hrothgar, delivers him from a monster, Grendel, and then from the vengeance of Grendel's only less formidable mother.
He loved that church, the old-fashioned, unadorned ikons and the old priest with the shaking head.
Bumble thrust in his head, unadorned with the cocked hat, and said aloud:
Her bare feet, as if poked through the bottom of an unadorned, sleeved calico sack buttoned tightly at neck and wrists, felt over the rug for the slippers while she looked upward into her husband's face.
Strangers were taken in front of the meanest possible, begrimed, yellowy, flat brick wall, with two rows of unadorned window-holes one above the other, and were exhorted with bated breath to behold and admire the simplicity of the head- quarters of the great financial force of the day.
The great thing about Mastermind is that it's a simple, unadorned quiz.
Randy Ortiz's were his typical feminine styles, one fully embroidered, the other unadorned but for its softly draped ball skirt.
These burgers taste great unadorned, but feel free to top them with accompaniments of your choice.