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: u-no-sten-ta-ti-ous. The stress falls on "ti".

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.