unassuming
adjective
un·as·sum·ing
ˌən-ə-ˈsü-miŋ 
approving
: not assuming : not having or showing a desire to be noticed : modest
an unassuming librarian
an unassuming manner
They lived in an unassuming house/neighborhood.
unassumingness
noun
Examples of unassuming in a Sentence
He's just an unassuming guy.
They lived in an unassuming home.
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Luca Evans, Denver Post, 24 Jan. 2026
In an unassuming building at the San Francisco Zoo, 115 brilliantly colored baby snakes are being fattened up on a diet of worms.
—Pepper St. Clair, Mercury News, 22 Jan. 2026
Most of these works portray an unassuming figure rendered in a blocky, simplified style, with heavy helpings of a fleshy pink that recall Philip Guston and Carroll Dunham.
—Benjamin Lima
special Contributor, Dallas Morning News, 17 Jan. 2026
Yet there the man is, arguably the modern world’s most famous living writer and certainly its most heroic, standing in lower Manhattan in an unassuming cap and coat, waiting for an Uber, making a dad joke about the Wall Street bull statue, planning trips to Sundance.
—Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 16 Jan. 2026
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“Unassuming.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unassuming. Accessed 28 Jan. 2026.
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unassuming
adjective
un·as·sum·ing
ˌən-ə-ˈsü-miŋ
: not pretentious : modest
an unassuming manner
an unassuming neighborhood
unassumingly
adverb
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