unglamorous

adjective

un·​glam·​or·​ous

ˌən-ˈglam-rəs,

-ˈgla-mə- 

: not excitingly attractive : not glamorous

unglamorous work

… only 80 pay to enter this unglamorous, graffiti-scarred brick building with views of the Thames.

—Asher Price

Examples of unglamorous in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

This is, of course, a very different property world to Trump's, whose father Fred amassed an unglamorous fortune building apartments, then watched his son turn the family business into a glitzy real-estate empire. —Kim Hjelmgaard, USA Today, 19 June 2025

Despite their unglamorous nature, these sectors represent essential services. —Ilona Limonta-Volkova, Forbes.com, 15 June 2025

Long before that, his son worked hard to be a servant leader, combatting a silver-spoon stigma by working as a ballboy, among other unglamorous jobs. —Michael Silver, New York Times, 22 May 2025

And stop chasing flashy chatbot demos, instead, build focused, contextual tools that do the unglamorous work of planning, reconciling, and forecasting. —Christer Holloman, Forbes.com, 5 June 2025

Word History

First Known Use

circa 1934, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for unglamorous

• amorous
• clamorous
• gammarus
• glamorous