unadorned

UK/ʌˌnəˈdɔːnd/US/əˌnʌˈdɔːɹnd/

adjectiveC1Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #13,811 of 15,258leans written

Unadorned means plain, with no decoration at all. An unadorned room, unadorned prose, unadorned truth.

It is usually praise, and the praise is for restraint rather than poverty — an unadorned style is a choice. The unadorned truth means the truth without softening. Note adorn beneath it, from a Latin verb meaning to fit out.

Definitions of unadorned

1adjectiveunadornedPlain, with no decoration at all.C1
“The walls of the monk's cell were bare and unadorned.”

unadorned is a quality of plainness.

Where it comes from

From un- + adorned.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in A Song of Ice and Fire

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unadorned in the wild

Mammals recorded in the park include unadorned rock wallabies, eastern grey kangaroos, common wallaroos, northern quolls and koalas.
Mount Aberdeen National Park
The leather slip-on boots may be accented with spurs or tassels, or be relatively unadorned.
Knee-high boot
The species has undergone taxonomic upheaval for decades and has variously been classified as an unadorned rock-wallaby, brush-tailed rock-wallaby, and black-flanked rock-wallaby.
Purple-necked rock-wallaby
Writers in this sub-category of realism are said to depict the seamier or more mundane aspects of ordinary life in spare, unadorned language.
Dirty realism
The unadorned rock-wallaby is patchily distributed in coastal ranges from around Rockhampton to near Townsville.
Unadorned rock-wallaby

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