unglamorous

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ glamorous.

Adjective

unglamorous (comparative more unglamorous, superlative most unglamorous)

1. Not glamorous; humdrum or prosaic.
   • 2014 August 23, Neil Hegarty, “Hidden City: Adventures and Explorations in Dublin by Karl Whitney, review: 'a necessary corrective' [print version: Re-Joycing in Dublin, p. R25]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review)‎^[1]:

     Whitney is absorbed especially by Dublin's unglamorous interstitial zones: the new housing estates and labyrinths of roads, watercourses and railways where the city peters into its commuter belt.

   • 2022 November 16, Philip Haigh, “Trans-Pennine... transformative”, in RAIL, number 970, page 38:

     And at the unglamorous end of upgrade work, it plans to improve drainage.

Related terms

• unglamorously

Translations

not glamorous

• Danish: uglamorøs
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: uglamorøs

  Nynorsk: uglamorøs

• Swedish: oglamorös