unstudied
/ʌnˈstʌdɪd
/adjective
Not laboured or artificial; natural: she had an unstudied grace in every step...
- His flawless singing is accentuated by the unstudied gestures of a natural performer.
- Still, one can't underestimate the nuance in Coogan's performance, that sense of unstudied naturalism that couldn't have been coached.
- The art is made in shaky, unstudied pencil that disarms the sordid imagery, and the juvenile captions each picture faces are too wet with angst to be truly disturbing.
Synonyms
natural, unlaboured, easy, unaffected, unforced, uncontrived, unmannered, unstilted, unpretentious, without airs, artless, guileless, informal, casual, nonchalant, spontaneous, impromptu, ad lib;
unrehearsed, improvised, unscripted, unpremeditated, extempore, extemporized;
Latin ad libitum
rare extemporary, extemporaneous
Derivatives
unstudiedly
- I had nowhere near the poise and social grace of this girl, nor her sweetness and sense of humor, nor her unstudiedly cute hair and subtle makeup.
- It is all so simple, and so unstudiedly natural.
- The musical director was recently married and is not to be led astray by fans in awe of his unstudiedly casual onstage outfits.
Rhymes
- land of used-to-be
- Landon, Alf
- land (or fall) on one's feet
- Landor, Walter Savage
- landowner
- landownership
- landowning
- land pirate
- landplane
- landrace
- landrail
- land reform
- Land Registry
- Landsat
- landscape
- landscape architect
- landscape architecture
- landscape gardener
- landscape gardening
- landscape history
- landscape painter
- landscape painting
- landscaper
- landscaping
- landscapist