unadorned
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.
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not decorated with something to increase its beauty or distinction
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synonyms:
undecorated
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bare, plain, spare, unembellished, unornamented
lacking embellishment or ornamentation
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untufted
not adorned with tufts
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unclothed
not wearing clothing
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plain
not elaborate or elaborated; simple
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antonyms:
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adorned, decorated
provided with something intended to increase its beauty or distinction
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beady, gemmed, jeweled, jewelled, sequined, spangled, spangly
covered with beads or jewels or sequins
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bedaubed
ornamented in a vulgar or showy fashion
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bespectacled, monocled, spectacled
wearing, or having the face adorned with, eyeglasses or an eyeglass
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brocaded, embossed, raised
embellished with a raised pattern created by pressure or embroidery
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buttony
ornamented with many buttons
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carbuncled
set with carbuncles
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champleve, cloisonne
(for metals) having areas separated by metal and filled with colored enamel and fired
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clinquant, tinseled, tinselly
glittering with gold or silver
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crested, plumed
(of a knight's helmet) having a decorative plume
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crested, topknotted, tufted
(of a bird or animal) having a usually ornamental tuft or process on the head; often used in combination
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crested
bearing an heraldic device
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crocketed
(of a gable or spire) furnished with a crocket (an ornament in the form of curved or bent foliage)
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feathered, feathery, plumy
adorned with feathers or plumes
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frilled, frilly, ruffled
having decorative ruffles or frills
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fringed
having a decorative edging of hanging cords or strips
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gilt-edged
having gilded edges as the pages of a book
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inflamed
adorned with tongues of flame
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inlaid
adorned by inlays
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inwrought
having a decorative pattern worked or woven in
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tessellated
decorated with small pieces of colored glass or stone fitted together in a mosaic
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mounted
decorated with applied ornamentation; often used in combination
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paneled, wainscoted
fitted or decorated with panels or wainscoting
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studded
dotted or adorned with or as with studs or nailheads; usually used in combination
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tapestried
hung or decorated with tapestry
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tasseled, tasselled
fringed or adorned with tassels
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tricked-out
decorated in a particular way
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tufted
having or adorned with tufts
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clad, clothed
wearing or provided with clothing; sometimes used in combination
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fancy
not plain; decorative or ornamented
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bare, plain, spare, unembellished, unornamented
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