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单词 unassuming
释义
unassuming
adjective
approving
uk
/ˌʌn.əˈsjuː.mɪŋ/us
/ˌʌn.əˈsuː.mɪŋ/
Someone who is unassuming isquietandshowsnowishforattentionoradmiration:
（人）不爱出风头的，谦逊的
He wasshyand unassuming and not at all how youexpectanactorto be.他腼腆低调，一点儿也不像你想象中的演员的样子。
Synonyms
bashful
coy(MODEST)
modest(QUIETLY SUCCESSFUL)approving
reserved(PERSON)
reticentformal
retiring(SHY)formal
self-effacing
shy(NERVOUS)
timid
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Shy and modest
  • aw shucks
  • backward
  • bashful
  • bashfully
  • bashfulness
  • deprecating
  • humility
  • inadequacy
  • inadequate
  • inhibited
  • inhibition
  • mousy
  • reticent
  • retiring
  • self-conscious
  • self-consciously
  • self-consciousness
  • self-deprecating
  • wallflower
  • withdrawn
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(Definition ofunassumingfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

unassuming| American Dictionary

unassuming
adjective
us
/ˌʌn·əˈsu·mɪŋ/
quietand notattractingattention:
ashyand unassumingperson
an unassuming littlerestaurant
(Definition ofunassumingfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofunassuming

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This is music that isunassumingand often undemonstrative, but that turns simple, elemental materials into drama that is absorbing and hard to forget.
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The container, thus, is simple andunassuming, although incredibly sophisticated in its detailing and craft.
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When grand systems become unattractive, local and contextual work, as detailed andunassumingas possible, is called for.
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Personally, he was mostunassuming, amiable, and ever ready to help those needing his advice.
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This claim is generally borne out, with a bare minimum of mathematics included, which in most cases is explained in a clear andunassumingmanner.
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They areunassumingfolk, who go about their everyday living, without becoming known as ' professional ' mystics.
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They employed between 5 and 8 servants, and most of their households were sufficientlyunassumingto escape the tax on male servants levied in 1777.
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But it is of an everyday character,unassumingand hidden from view, almost invariably stopping short of open confrontation.
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It tends to be lost in translation, in theunassumingmodifiers 'simple' or 'simply', but it rings out in the original and needs a comparably emphatic equivalent.
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Faber's venture seems so deceptivelyunassumingthat one is willing to go along with him with the expectation of some new discoveries.
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It was exactly the right length it was well-informed; humorous in places; and it was totallyunassuming.
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My point was that he wasunassumingon the back benches.
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They are among the most generous, kindly andunassumingpeople one could know.
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Due to the fame of the man himself—one of the mostunassumingmen who ever lived—it obtained more publicity than others.
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One could never meet him without realising how kind, howunassumingand how friendly he was.
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