as in simple
free from all additions or embellishment
an unembellished vase is best because it won't take attention away from the flowers
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Recent Examples of unembellished
Kraftwerk’s unembellished techniques escalated the significance of works that feel more apropos now than ever.
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Bob Gendron, Chicago Tribune, 30 Mar. 2025
On the fourth floor was an entrance designed to impress visitors: Its open plan stretches from a dining area in back with a picture window framing Amster Yard, and a living room in front where a flat wall of unembellished wood frames a fireplace of plain limestone slabs.
—Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 20 Mar. 2025
The language is spare for Mishima; the narrative is relatively unembellished, almost journalistic.
—Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 27 Oct. 2024
His women and men came out like automatons on his runways and moved like bullets, which was a whole new way of presenting unembellished clothes.
—Hamish Bowles, Vogue, 17 Sep. 2024
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Bob Gendron, Chicago Tribune, 30 Mar. 2025
On the fourth floor was an entrance designed to impress visitors: Its open plan stretches from a dining area in back with a picture window framing Amster Yard, and a living room in front where a flat wall of unembellished wood frames a fireplace of plain limestone slabs.
—Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 20 Mar. 2025
The language is spare for Mishima; the narrative is relatively unembellished, almost journalistic.
—Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 27 Oct. 2024
His women and men came out like automatons on his runways and moved like bullets, which was a whole new way of presenting unembellished clothes.
—Hamish Bowles, Vogue, 17 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unembellished
Adjective
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Their simple plan goes awry when one of their relatives wants a posh Korean wedding banquet in the heartfelt romantic comedy.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
13 Sep. 2025
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The inspiration The Copleys wanted a low-water garden that would be simple to care for.—
Caron Golden,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
13 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Place in a pastry bag fitted with a large plain tip.—
Caron Golden,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
10 Sep. 2025
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At the same time, v0 enables teams to generate responsive UIs directly from Figma designs or plain English descriptions, thereby minimizing the gap between vision and implementation.—
Paul Kovalenko,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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The whole movie feels, if anything too realistic; an unflashy, unadorned terror borne from a real-life virus.—
James Grebey,
Time,
12 Sep. 2025
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Jarmusch may not be explicitly referencing Carver, though both artists have made an unadorned style their identity.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
31 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Just a few hours later, Dakota Johnson served up another naked dress inspiration at the Kering Foundation's Caring for Women dinner in New York City.—
Margaux Anbouba,
Vogue,
12 Sep. 2025
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The Bortle scale is a numerical scale that ranges from one to nine, with one being an excellent dark sky site with no light pollution and nine being an area with considerable light pollution and many night sky objects invisible to the naked eye.—
Harry Bennett,
Space.com,
11 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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That background lends her work an unvarnished normalcy.—
Nicholas Quah,
Vulture,
10 Sep. 2025
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This type of unvarnished discourse is refreshing in a game filled with dishonesty, spin, and secretive media briefings.—
Zak Garner-Purkis,
Forbes.com,
30 Aug. 2025
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“Unembellished.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unembellished. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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