单词 | unpretentiousness |
释义 | unpretentiousness (once / 218877 pages) n WORD FAMILY unpretentious: unpretentiously, unpretentiousness+/pretense: pretenses, pretension, pretentious/pretension: pretensions/pretentious: pretentiously, pretentiousness, unpretentious USAGE EXAMPLESBeyond the classes, gardens, pockets of hammocks and buildings of adobe and red tiles, The Ranch appealed to us because of its unpretentiousness. Washington Post(Sep 22, 2016) “What appealed to me most was the pumpkin’s generous unpretentiousness,” she wrote. New York Times(Jul 01, 2016) Especially in the seventies, eighties, and nineties, the tech sector demanded a utilitarian plainness, an ostentatious unpretentiousness, in its products—values that Apple rejected. The New Yorker(Apr 01, 2016) n the quality of being natural and without pretensions Ant|Hyper largeness, pretension, pretentiousness the quality of being pretentious (behaving or speaking in such a manner as to create a false appearance of great importance or worth) naturalness the quality of being natural or based on natural principles |
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