unabashed

English

WOTD – 14 September 2008

Etymology

From un- +‎ abashed.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: ŭn'ə-băshtʹ, IPA^(key): /ˌʌnəˈbæʃt/

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• Rhymes: -æʃt

Adjective

unabashed (comparative more unabashed, superlative most unabashed)

1. Not disconcerted or embarrassed.

   Synonyms: abashless, composed, poised, unaffected, undaunted, unshamed

   • 1866, Wilkie Collins, Armadale, Third book, Chapter V:

     For the third time Allan looked at his lawyer. And for the third time his lawyer looked back at him quite unabashed.

   • 1919, Rabindranath Tagore, Letter to M. K. Gandhi:

     Armed with her utter faith in the goodness she must stand unabashed before the arrogance that scoffs at the power of spirit.

2. Of actions, emotions, facts, etc.: that are not concealed or disguised, or not eliciting shame.

   Synonyms: abashless, barefaced, blatant, impudent, obvious, shameless, unrestrained

   • 1872, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter XXXIV, in Middlemarch […], volume II, Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book IV, page 180:

     [G]oodness is of a modest nature, easily discouraged, and when much privacy, elbowed in early life by unabashed vices, is apt to retire into extreme privacy, [...]

   • 1920, Edith Wharton, “Chapter XXV”, in The Age of Innocence:

     [...]; a balance not artfully calculated, as her tears and her falterings showed, but resulting naturally from her unabashed sincerity.

Translations

not disconcerted or embarrassed

• Bulgarian: невъзмутим (bg) (nevǎzmutim)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 唔怕醜嘅 / 唔怕丑嘅 (m⁴ paa³ cau² ge³)

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: häpeämätön (fi)
• French: éhonté (fr)
• German: ruhig (de), gelassen (de), unaufgeregt, ungerührt (de), ungeniert (de)
• Manx: gyn nearey
• Plautdietsch: onveschämt
• Russian: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can
• Swedish: ogenerad (sv)
• Turkish: küstah (tr), utanmaz (tr)

that are not concealed

• Bulgarian: неприкрит (bg) (neprikrit)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: peittelemätön
• French: décomplexé (fr), éhonté (fr)
• German: unverhohlen (de), unverblümt (de), schonungslos (de), ohne jegliche Scham, ungeniert (de), schamlos (de), unverfroren (de)
• Russian: открове́нный (ru) m (otkrovénnyj), я́вный (ru) m (jávnyj), неприкры́тый (ru) m (neprikrýtyj)
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can
• Swedish: ogenerad (sv)