unvarnished and unadorned
1unvarnished — [adj] plain, honest bare, candid, clean, folksy*, for real*, frank, genuine, homey*, naked, open, open and shut*, pure, pure and simple*, simple, sincere, stark, straight, straightforward, unadorned, unconcealed, undisguised, undissembled,… …
2unadorned — Synonyms and related words: Spartan, arcadian, ascetic, austere, bald, bare, basic, blank, bucolic, candid, chaste, common, commonplace, direct, dry, dull, elementary, essential, frank, fundamental, genuine, homely, homespun, homogeneous,… …
3unvarnished — Synonyms and related words: Spartan, arcadian, ascetic, austere, authentic, bald, bare, blank, bona fide, bucolic, candid, card carrying, common, commonplace, dinkum, direct, dry, dull, following the letter, frank, genuine, good, guileless,… …
4unadorned — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. bare, severe, austere, unornamented, plain, simple; naked, blank; terse, trenchant. See simpleness. II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. unembellished, undecorated, bare, bald, stark. see plain III… …
5unvarnished — adj 1. plain, clear, straightforward, simple, true, bare, naked, overt; unadorned, unembellished, unfurbished, undecorated, unor namented, untrimmed, undecked, undressed; pure, pure and simple, direct, inartificial, unsophisticated, unpretentious …
6simple */*/*/ — UK [ˈsɪmp(ə)l] / US adjective Word forms simple : adjective simple comparative simpler superlative simplest Metaphor: Straightforward and direct language is like something that is plain and not decorated or colourful. Clever, complicated, and… …
7plain — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. simple, unornamented (see simpleness); homely (see ugliness). n. prairie, tableland, steppe, savanna, tundra, heath, pampas, mesa, llana; meadow, pasture, field. See land, horizontal.Ant., fancy. II …
8simple — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. elementary, uncomplicated; plain, common; unassuming, humble, unaffected; pure, absolute; gullible, silly. See simpleness, humility, folly, purity.Ant., complex, complicated, difficult. II (Roget s… …
9bald — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. hairless; treeless; bare, unadorned; undisguised. See divestment, simpleness. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Without natural covering; usually, without hair] Syn. hairless, baldheaded, depilated,… …
10plain — Synonyms and related words: Attic, Bohemian, Ciceronian, Lebensraum, Mickey Mouse, Spartan, abrupt, absolute, absolutely, affable, agricultural region, air space, all embracing, all encompassing, all out, all pervading, apparent, arable land,… …
