unornamented
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From un- + ornamented.
Adjective
[edit]unornamented (not comparable)
- Not ornamented; without ornament.
- Synonyms: unadorned, unembellished; see also Thesaurus:unadorned
- 1893, William Morris, The Ideal Book:
- Well, I lay it down, first, that a book quite unornamented can look actually and positively beautiful, and not merely un-ugly, if it be, so to say, architecturally good, which, by the by, need not add much to its price […]
- 1988 April 29, Cerinda Survant, “The Invisible Dancer”, in Chicago Reader[1]:
- The many repetitions of unornamented locomotor movement describing great diagonals do eventually wear.