单词 | unadorned |
释义 | unadorned (once / 6607 pages) adj Something unadorned has no decorations or frills. It's plain, like a room with nothing on the walls or a person wearing purely functional clothes and no accessories. To adorn something is to decorate it or to dress it up. If something is unadorned, it lacks decorations. An unadorned Christmas tree is just a plain old pine tree. If a woman’s face is unadorned, she’s not wearing makeup. The unadorned truth is the plain truth, with no nonsense. This word means about the same as undecorated, and it can often mean dull. But that’s a matter of taste. WORD FAMILYadorned: unadorned+/adorn: adorned, adorning, adornment, adorns/adornment: adornments USAGE EXAMPLESWhen he questioned the price of the unadorned pasta, Rosen was told it was priced the same as the one with seafood. Washington Post(Dec 15, 2016) Instead of a tree, there’s an unadorned pole. Seattle Times(Dec 22, 2016) Some cars are unadorned – just gray sedans driving down the street. The Guardian(Dec 17, 2016) adj not decorated with something to increase its beauty or distinction Syn|Ant undecorated bare, plain, spare, unembellished, unornamented lacking embellishment or ornamentation untuftednot adorned with tufts unclothednot wearing clothing plainnot elaborate or elaborated; simple adorned, decorated provided with something intended to increase its beauty or distinction beady, gemmed, jeweled, jewelled, sequined, spangled, spanglycovered with beads or jewels or sequins bedaubedornamented in a vulgar or showy fashion bespectacled, monocled, spectacledwearing, or having the face adorned with, eyeglasses or an eyeglass brocaded, embossed, raisedembellished with a raised pattern created by pressure or embroidery buttonyornamented with many buttons carbuncledset with carbuncles champleve, cloisonne(for metals) having areas separated by metal and filled with colored enamel and fired clinquant, tinseled, tinsellyglittering with gold or silver crested, plumed(of a knight's helmet) having a decorative plume crested, topknotted, tufted(of a bird or animal) having a usually ornamental tuft or process on the head; often used in combination crestedbearing an heraldic device crocketed(of a gable or spire) furnished with a crocket (an ornament in the form of curved or bent foliage) feathered, feathery, plumyadorned with feathers or plumes frilled, frilly, ruffledhaving decorative ruffles or frills fringedhaving a decorative edging of hanging cords or strips gilt-edgedhaving gilded edges as the pages of a book inflamedadorned with tongues of flame inlaidadorned by inlays inwroughthaving a decorative pattern worked or woven in tessellateddecorated with small pieces of colored glass or stone fitted together in a mosaic mounteddecorated with applied ornamentation; often used in combination paneled, wainscotedfitted or decorated with panels or wainscoting studdeddotted or adorned with or as with studs or nailheads; usually used in combination tapestriedhung or decorated with tapestry tasseled, tasselledfringed or adorned with tassels tricked-outdecorated in a particular way tuftedhaving or adorned with tufts clad, clothedwearing or provided with clothing; sometimes used in combination fancynot plain; decorative or ornamented |
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