as in simple
free from all additions or embellishment
the completely unadorned clothing favored by members of that religious sect
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Recent Examples of unadorned
The film opens with a short, satirical cartoon about Soviet bureaucrats forcefully replacing idiosyncratic historic buildings with nearly identical, unadorned apartment blocks.
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Valeriya Safronova, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2024
Many Brutalist buildings make extensive use of concrete, which are utilized in large, unadorned, and spare structures.
—Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 14 Jan. 2025
They are served completely unadorned: just a soft tortilla with a big helping of meat heaped on it, nothing more.
—David Hudnall, Kansas City Star, 2 Jan. 2025
Unique, unadorned and soulful 'magic' Cover songs will greatly benefit Culpepper's rise.
—Marcus K. Dowling, The Tennessean, 13 Oct. 2024
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Valeriya Safronova, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2024
Many Brutalist buildings make extensive use of concrete, which are utilized in large, unadorned, and spare structures.
—Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 14 Jan. 2025
They are served completely unadorned: just a soft tortilla with a big helping of meat heaped on it, nothing more.
—David Hudnall, Kansas City Star, 2 Jan. 2025
Unique, unadorned and soulful 'magic' Cover songs will greatly benefit Culpepper's rise.
—Marcus K. Dowling, The Tennessean, 13 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unadorned
Adjective
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But there's a simple—and so easy-to-remember—method that will make the packing process easy every time: the 5-4-3-2-1 method.—
Alesandra Dubin,
Southern Living,
1 Mar. 2025
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But with a change as simple as adding a bistro table and chairs, these cozy nooks become inviting oases to use regularly.—
Miles Walls,
Better Homes & Gardens,
1 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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My son didn’t want the standard plain vanilla suspended ceiling.—
Tim Carter,
Hartford Courant,
1 Mar. 2025
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With modest effort and our standard test parts, our system looks great all lit up (even with the plain, unlit fans on our 240mm CPU cooler).—
PCMAG,
PCMAG,
1 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Unlike with a solar eclipse, all phases of a total lunar eclipse are safe to look at with the naked eye.—
Jamie Carter,
Space.com,
7 Mar. 2025
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And Fox wasn’t the only star who showed up wearing the nearly naked look.—
Vivian Kwarm,
New York Daily News,
4 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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The bare fact was that this was simply a less effective Arsenal team.—
Zak Garner-Purkis,
Forbes,
26 Feb. 2025
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Owners of Framework Laptops going all the way back to the original 11th-generation Intel version can also buy a bare board to drop into their existing systems; these start at $449.—
Ars Technica,
Ars Technica,
25 Feb. 2025
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“Unadorned.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unadorned. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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