unostentatious

Questions about unostentatious

What does unostentatious mean?

unostentatious means "not ostentatious". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in unostentatious?

unostentatious has 6 syllables and divides as u-no-sten-ta-ti-ous under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for unostentatious?

Close synonyms include unpretentious, unpretending, understated, unpretentious. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of unostentatious?

The recorded antonyms are ostentatious.

Is unostentatious a common word?

unostentatious is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.