| 单词 | unprepossessing |
| 释义 | unprepossessing (once / 14467 pages) adj If you find someone to be unprepossessing, you find them unattractive. Not that they're ugly, mind you! Just unprepossessing. Unprepossessing is a rather indirect way of calling someone unattractive, or at best OK-looking. Unprepossessing is not quite the same as "ugly." Rather, just a way of saying that someone's looks aren't what you're most likely to remember about them. Cinderella was most unprepossessing in the filthy clothes and worn-out shoes that her step-sisters forced her to wear. But when she was all decked out by her fairy godmother, she was the belle of the ball: she was no longer unprepossessing. WORD FAMILYunprepossessing: unprepossessingly+/dispossess: dispossessed, dispossesses, dispossessing, dispossession/dispossession: dispossessions/possess: dispossess, possessed, possesses, possessing, possession, possessive, possessor, prepossess, repossess/possessed: possessedly, self-possessed/possession: possessions, self-possession/possessive: possessively, possessiveness, possessives/possessor: possessors/prepossess: prepossessed, prepossesses, prepossessing, prepossession/prepossessing: prepossessingly, unprepossessing/prepossession: prepossessions/repossess: repossessed, repossesses, repossessing, repossession/repossession: repossessions USAGE EXAMPLESOn the first day, Masto found herself with more than 30 women crowded into an unprepossessing room with a single stove and a sink. The Guardian(Dec 07, 2016) Another unit in the same building was dark and unprepossessing. New York Times(Dec 01, 2016) The food does most of the talking at this spacious, unprepossessing restaurant. New York Times(Nov 22, 2016) adj creating an unfavorable or neutral first impression Syn unpresentable unattractive lacking beauty or charm |
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