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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
unpretentious
adjective
1: lacking pretension or affectation; "an unpretentious country church"; "her quiet unpretentious demeanor" [ant: {pretentious}]
2: not ostentatious; "his unostentatious office"; "unostentatious elegance" [syn: {unostentatious}, {unpretending}] [ant: {ostentatious}]
3: exhibiting restrained good taste; "the room is pleasant and understated" [syn: {understated}, {unostentatious}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
83 Moby Thesaurus words for "unpretentious": altruistic, arcadian, bucolic, candid, committed, consecrated, dedicated, devoted, direct, discreet, disinterested, genuine, homely, homespun, honest, humble, humble-looking, humble-visaged, humblest, inartificial, inglorious, innocuous, least, low, lowest, lowliest, lowly, mean, meek, modest, native, natural, naturelike, pastoral, plain, poor, rural, sacrificing, self-abasing, self-abnegating, self-abnegatory, self-denying, self-devoted, self-effacing, self-forgetful, self-immolating, self-neglectful, self-neglecting, self-renouncing, self-sacrificing, self-unconscious, selfless, simple, small, straightforward, teachable, unacquisitive, unadorned, unaffected, unambitious, unartificial, unaspiring, unassuming, unboastful, undesigning, undisguising, undissembling, undissimulating, undistinguished, unembellished, unfeigning, unimportant, unimposing, unobtrusive, unostentatious, unpossessive, unpresuming, unpresumptuous, unpretending, unselfish, unsparing of self, unspoiled, unvarnished
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