unpretentious

Questions about unpretentious

What does unpretentious mean?

unpretentious means "lacking pretension or affectation". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in unpretentious?

unpretentious has 4 syllables: un-pre-ten-tious. The stress falls on "ten". In IPA it is /ˌʌnpɹiˈtɛnʃəs/.

What is another word for unpretentious?

Close synonyms include unostentatious, unpretending, understated, unostentatious. 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 unpretentious?

The recorded antonyms are pretentious.

Is unpretentious a common word?

unpretentious is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with unpretentious?

2 words rhyme with unpretentious. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.