unpretending

English

Etymology

un- + pretending

Adjective

unpretending (comparative more unpretending, superlative most unpretending)

  1. unpretentious, real, genuine
    • Charles Dickens, Bleak House
      Perhaps our wedding might even be as unpretending as her own, and I might not find it necessary to say anything about it until it was over.

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