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unpretentious
Synonyms and Antonyms of unpretentious
1
free from any intent to deceive or impress others
childlike, dewy-eyed, gee-whiz, impressionable, inexperienced, malleable, persuadable, persuasible, simpleminded, unsophisticated, unworldly, wide-eyed
spontaneous, unforced, unstudied
candid, direct, frank, free, free-spoken, open, openhearted, plain, plainspoken, single-minded, straight, straightforward, unguarded
exploitable, gullible (also gullable), susceptible, unwary
on the level
critical, cynical, mistrustful, skeptical, suspicious, wary
cosmopolitan, sophisticated, worldly, worldly-wise
civilized, cultivated, cultured, polished, refined
crooked, deceitful, deceptive, devious, double-dealing, hypocritical, manipulative, two-faced
arch, calculating, canny, crafty, cunning, designing, foxy, knavish, scheming, sharp, shifty, shrewd, slick, slippery, sly, subtle, tricky, underhanded, wily
affected, artful, artificial, assuming, dishonest, dissembling, dissimulating, fake, false, guileful, insincere, phony (also phoney), pretentious
2
not excessively showy
conservative, low-key (also low-keyed), muted, quiet, repressed, restrained, sober, subdued, toned-down, understated, unflashy
flamboyant, flaring, flashy, garish, gaudy, glitzy, loud, noisy, ostentatious, razzle-dazzle, splashy, swank (or swanky)
3
not having or showing any feelings of superiority, self-assertiveness, or showiness
acquiescent, compliant, deferential, resigned, submissive, unaggressive, unassertive, yielding
ingenuous, naive (or naïve), plain, simple, unaffected
bashful, diffident, introverted, mousy (or mousey), overmodest, passive, quiet, reserved, retiring, sheepish, shy, subdued, timid, unobtrusive
aw-shucks, self-deprecating, self-deprecatory, self-effacing
aggressive, assertive, audacious, bold, brash, brassy, cheeky, forward, impertinent, impudent, saucy
cocksure, cocky, confident, hubristic, overconfident, self-confident
egocentric, egoistic (also egoistical), narcissistic, prideful, self-affected, self-centered, self-complacent, self-conceited, self-congratulatory, self-contented, self-engrossed, self-important, self-obsessed, self-pleased, self-satisfied, smug, stuck-up, swelled-headed
boastful, bombastic, braggy, swaggering, vain, vainglorious
condescending, disdainful, dominant, dominating, domineering, magisterial, overbearing, patronizing, pontificating
flamboyant, ostentatious, showy
extroverted (also extraverted), immodest, outgoing, uninhibited, unreserved
arrogant, bumptious, chesty, conceited, egotistic (or egotistical), fastuous, haughty, highfalutin (also hifalutin), high-and-mighty, high-handed, high-hat, hoity-toity, huffish, huffy, imperious, lordly, overweening, peremptory, pompous, presuming, presumptuous, pretentious, self-asserting, self-assertive, supercilious, superior, toplofty (also toploftical), uppish, uppity
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