unembellished
Appearance
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From un- + embellished.
Adjective
[edit]unembellished (comparative more unembellished, superlative most unembellished)
- Plain, unadorned, or simple.
- Synonyms: austere, bare, modest, undecorated, unadorned; see also Thesaurus:unadorned
- Antonyms: adorned, decorate, complicated; see also Thesaurus:gaudy
- 1941 October, C. Hamilton Ellis, Charles E. Lee, “The Welsh Highland Railway—III”, in Railway Magazine, page 435:
- Thus passed the last of the North Wales Narrow Gauge locomotives, and one of the few American-built locomotives to survive in Great Britain; the sadly cropped though once elegant Russell, and the unembellished yet useful Yankee plug-ugly.