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 work is slow and unglamorous, and the difference between AI that produces results and AI that produces faster noise. — Lauren Livak Gilbert, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2026

But none of that gets built without electricians running the conduit, HVAC techs keeping the servers cool, welders and pipefitters and heavy equipment operators doing the unglamorous work that makes the glamorous stuff possible. — Phil Blair, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Sep. 2026

The show's simple premise paired celebrity interviews with the deliberately unglamorous setting of a fast-food chicken restaurant. — Sameen Chaudhry, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2026

Sherman is known to savage, with unglamorous insensitivity, the vaunted creative directors of the great houses. — Aidan McLaughlin, Vanity Fair, 19 Aug. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

circa 1934, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for unglamorous

• amorous
• clamorous
• gammarus
• glamorous