unvarnished

Questions about unvarnished

What does unvarnished mean?

unvarnished means "not having a coating of stain or varnish". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in unvarnished?

unvarnished has 3 syllables: unvar-ni-shed. The stress falls on "ni". In IPA it is /ənˈvɑɹnɪʃt/.

What is another word for unvarnished?

Close synonyms include unstained, plain. 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.

Is unvarnished a common word?

unvarnished 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.

What rhymes with unvarnished?

1 word rhymes with unvarnished. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.