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Proto-Indo-European *né

Proto-Indo-European *n̥-

Proto-Germanic *un-

Proto-West Germanic *un-

Old English un-

Middle English un-

English unadorned

From un- + adorned.

(UK) IPA(key): /ʌˌnəˈdɔːnd/
(US) IPA(key): /əˌnʌˈdɔːɹnd/

unadorned (comparative more unadorned, superlative most unadorned)

Having no additional decoration or embellishment; plain and simple
Synonyms: austere, unembellished; see also Thesaurus:unadorned
- 2003, Christopher Paolini, “Prologue: Shade of Fear”, in Eragon, page 2:
  Her clothes were unadorned, yet her beauty was undiminished.
- 2019, Roderick Beaton, Greece: Biography of a Modern Country, Penguin, published 2020, page 307:
  This was the era of the polykatoikia, the apartment block built of unadorned concrete and typically five or six storeys high.
- 2019 October 1, Kate Quinn, Stephanie Dray, Laura Kamoie, E. Knight, Sophie Perinot, Heather Webb, Ribbons of Scarlet: A Novel of the French Revolution's Women‎[1], HarperCollins, →ISBN:
  Though I wore only a plain somber gray Brunswick gown unadorned by ribbon or lace, and my uncle was dressed in black, the people knew aristocrats on sight.

unadornedness

Having no additional decoration

Bulgarian: неукрасен (bg) (neukrasen)
Dutch: kaal (nl)
Esperanto: senornama
Finnish: koristelematon
French: dépouillé (fr), sobre (fr), sans fioritures (fr), sans ornements (fr), simple (fr)
German: schmucklos (de), schlicht (de)
Greek: αδιακόσμητος (el) (adiakósmitos)
Ancient Greek: ἄκομψος (ákompsos)
Hungarian: dísztelen (hu), díszítetlen (hu)
Irish: lom
Māori: kōkau, tōkau, tōtōkau
Portuguese: desadornado (pt), sem adorno
Scottish Gaelic: sìmplidh
Tagalog: lisding
Turkish: gösterişsiz (tr), süssüz (tr), sade (tr)

unadorned

simple past and past participle of unadorn