unassuming

The word “unassuming” has 4 syllables: un-as-sum-ing

It's pronounced as /ˌʌnəˈsjuːmɪŋ/


What is synonym and antonym for unassuming?

In the thesaurus, “unassuming” has 47 synonyms and 96 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for unassuming along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for unassuming

  • acquiescent
  • aw-shucks
  • backward
  • bashful
  • compliant
  • cowering
  • cringing
  • deferential
  • demure
  • diffident
  • down-to-earth
  • humble
  • ingenuous
  • introverted
  • lowly
  • meek
  • modest
  • mousey
  • mousy
  • naive
  • overmodest
  • passive
  • plain
  • prim
  • quiet
  • reserved
  • resigned
  • retiring
  • self-deprecating
  • self-deprecatory
  • self-effacing
  • sheepish
  • shrinking
  • shy
  • simple
  • subdued
  • submissive
  • timid
  • unaffected
  • unaggressive
  • unambitious
  • unassertive
  • unobtrusive
  • unostentatious
  • unpretending
  • unpretentious
  • yielding

Antonyms for unassuming

  • aggressive
  • arrogant
  • assertive
  • audacious
  • boastful
  • bold
  • bombastic
  • braggy
  • brash
  • brassy
  • brave
  • bumptious
  • cheeky
  • chesty
  • cocksure
  • cocky
  • conceited
  • condescending
  • confident
  • disdainful
  • dominant
  • dominating
  • domineering
  • egocentric
  • egoistic
  • egoistical
  • egotistic
  • egotistical
  • extraverted
  • extroverted
  • fastuous
  • flamboyant
  • flaunting
  • forward
  • haughty
  • hifalutin
  • high-and-mighty
  • high-handed
  • high-hat
  • highfalutin
  • hoity-toity
  • hubristic
  • huffish
  • huffy
  • immodest
  • imperious
  • impertinent
  • impudent
  • lordly
  • magisterial
  • narcissistic
  • obtrusive
  • ostentatious
  • outgoing
  • overbearing
  • overconfident
  • overweening
  • patronizing
  • peremptory
  • pompous
  • pontificating
  • presuming
  • presumptuous
  • pretentious
  • prideful
  • proud
  • saucy
  • self-affected
  • self-asserting
  • self-assertive
  • self-centered
  • self-complacent
  • self-conceited
  • self-confident
  • self-congratulatory
  • self-contented
  • self-engrossed
  • self-important
  • self-obsessed
  • self-pleased
  • self-satisfied
  • showy
  • smug
  • stuck-up
  • supercilious
  • superior
  • swaggering
  • swelled-headed
  • toploftical
  • toplofty
  • uninhibited
  • unreserved
  • uppish
  • uppity
  • vain
  • vainglorious

Meanings of unassuming

  • adjective
    1. Modest and having no pretensions or ostentation.

Example Sentences

  • Despite his wealth, he lived in a simple, unassuming house.
  • Her unassuming nature often led people to underestimate her abilities.
  • The unassuming man at the party turned out to be a famous author.
  • She wore an unassuming outfit to the interview, focusing on her qualifications instead.
  • The restaurant may look unassuming from the outside, but its food is extraordinary.

On this page you'll find 143 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to unassuming, such as: acquiescent, aggressive, arrogant, assertive, audacious, aw-shucks, backward.

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Related Words

abashed

  • agitated
  • ashamed
  • awkward
  • backward
  • bashful
  • bewildered
  • bothered
  • bugged
  • chagrined
  • clumsy
  • confounded
  • confused
  • coy
  • crushed
  • debased
  • degraded
  • demeaned
  • demure
  • diffident
  • discombobulated
  • discomfited
  • discomforted
  • discomposed
  • disconcerted
  • discountenanced
  • dismayed
  • disquieted
  • distressed
  • disturbed
  • embarrassed
  • fazed
  • flustered
  • fuddled
  • gauche
  • graceless
  • humbled
  • humiliated
  • in a tizzy
  • inelegant
  • inhibited
  • insecure
  • introverted
  • jittery
  • jumpy
  • meek
  • modest
  • mortified
  • nervous
  • nonplused
  • nonplussed
  • perturbed
  • put off
  • put out
  • queered
  • rattled
  • recessive
  • reserved
  • retiring
  • rough-hewn
  • rustic
  • rustical
  • self-conscious
  • self-doubting
  • self-effacing
  • shamed
  • sheepish
  • shy
  • stiff
  • stilted
  • taken aback
  • timid
  • unadventurous
  • unassertive
  • unassuming
  • uncomfortable
  • uneasy
  • unenterprising
  • ungraceful
  • unhinged
  • unpretentious
  • unsettled
  • upset
  • uptight
  • withdrawn
  • wooden

abject

  • base
  • contemptible
  • degraded
  • dejected
  • demure
  • deplorable
  • dishonorable
  • fawning
  • forlorn
  • groveling
  • hangdog
  • humble
  • humiliated
  • lamblike
  • low
  • lowly
  • meek
  • menial
  • miserable
  • modest
  • outcast
  • pitiable
  • retiring
  • servile
  • sheepish
  • slavish
  • submissive
  • sycophant
  • sycophantic
  • toadyish
  • unassuming
  • unpretentious
  • worthless
  • wretched

base

  • abject
  • abominable
  • airbase
  • anchorage
  • assume
  • assumption
  • atrocious
  • attraction
  • authority
  • axis
  • backbone
  • bad
  • basement
  • basis
  • bastion
  • battlefront
  • beachhead
  • bed
  • bedrock
  • blamable
  • blameworthy
  • bottom
  • brace
  • bridgehead
  • bulwark
  • buttress
  • camp
  • capital
  • censurable
  • center
  • central
  • cheap
  • chief constituent
  • coarse
  • command
  • command post
  • common
  • construct
  • contemptible
  • core
  • cornerstone
  • corrupt
  • cruel
  • currish
  • cynosure
  • debased
  • debauched
  • deep
  • degenerate
  • demure
  • depend
  • depot
  • depraved
  • derive
  • despicable
  • detestable
  • dirty
  • discreditable
  • disgraceful
  • dishonorable
  • disreputable
  • dissolute
  • dock
  • emplacement
  • epicenter
  • essence
  • essential
  • establish
  • evidence
  • evil
  • execrable
  • eye
  • fastness
  • fawning
  • field
  • focus
  • foot
  • foothold
  • footing
  • fortress
  • foul
  • found
  • foundation
  • framework
  • front
  • fundamental
  • garrison
  • ground
  • ground zero
  • groundwork
  • grovelling
  • hang
  • hangar
  • hangdog
  • happy hunting ground
  • harbor
  • headquarters
  • heart
  • hinge
  • hive
  • home
  • hot spot
  • hotbed
  • hub
  • humble
  • ignoble
  • ignominious
  • immoral
  • important part
  • indelicate
  • infrastructure
  • iniquitous
  • installation
  • justification
  • kernel
  • key
  • keystone
  • lamblike
  • loadstone
  • loathsome
  • locate
  • locus
  • lodestone
  • low
  • low-down
  • low-minded
  • lowly
  • magnet
  • mean
  • mecca
  • meek
  • menial
  • miscreant
  • modest
  • mount
  • nadir
  • nasty
  • navel
  • nerve center
  • nexus
  • nub
  • nucleus
  • offensive
  • omphalos
  • origin
  • paltry
  • pedestal
  • perverted
  • pith
  • pitiful
  • plant
  • playground
  • playland
  • plebeian
  • polestar
  • poor
  • port
  • post
  • postulate
  • predicate
  • premise
  • premiss
  • presume
  • presumption
  • presuppose
  • presupposition
  • primary element
  • principal
  • principle
  • prop
  • quintessence
  • rationale
  • reprehensible
  • rest
  • retiring
  • rock bottom
  • root
  • scandalous
  • seat
  • seating
  • servile
  • set up
  • settlement
  • shameful
  • sheepish
  • shoddy
  • shore
  • site
  • slavish
  • sleazy
  • snide
  • sordid
  • sorry
  • soul
  • source
  • squalid
  • staging area
  • staging ground
  • stand
  • starting point
  • station
  • stay
  • strip
  • stronghold
  • substratum
  • substructure
  • support
  • suppose
  • supposition
  • sycophant
  • sycophantic
  • terminal
  • theory
  • thesis
  • thick
  • toadyish
  • toehold
  • touchstone
  • trashy
  • ugly
  • unassuming
  • underpinning
  • unethical
  • unpretentious
  • unprincipled
  • unscrupulous
  • unworthy
  • vicious
  • vile
  • villainous
  • warp
  • warp and woof
  • warrant
  • wicked
  • worthless
  • wretched
  • wrong

egoless

  • bashful
  • demure
  • diffident
  • down-to-earth
  • humble
  • introverted
  • meek
  • modest
  • mousey
  • mousy
  • overmodest
  • retiring
  • self-critical
  • self-distrustful
  • self-doubting
  • self-reproachful
  • self-reproving
  • sheepish
  • shrinking
  • shy
  • timid
  • unarrogant
  • unassertive
  • unassuming
  • uncomplacent
  • unpretentious

gauche

  • abashed
  • agitated
  • angular
  • awkward
  • boorish
  • bothered
  • bumbling
  • chagrined
  • clownish
  • clumsy
  • crude
  • diffident
  • discomfited
  • discomforted
  • discomposed
  • disconcerted
  • discountenanced
  • dismayed
  • disquieted
  • distressed
  • disturbed
  • embarrassed
  • fazed
  • flustered
  • gawky
  • graceless
  • green
  • halting
  • ham-handed
  • heavy-handed
  • ignorant
  • ill-bred
  • ill-mannered
  • inelegant
  • inept
  • insecure
  • insensitive
  • jittery
  • jumpy
  • lacking
  • lubberly
  • maladroit
  • meek
  • modest
  • mortified
  • nervous
  • nonplused
  • nonplussed
  • oafish
  • perturbed
  • rattled
  • rough-hewn
  • rustic
  • rustical
  • self-conscious
  • self-doubting
  • stiff
  • stilted
  • timid
  • unassertive
  • unassuming
  • uncomfortable
  • uncouth
  • uncultured
  • uneasy
  • ungainly
  • ungraceful
  • unhappy
  • unhinged
  • unpolished
  • unpretentious
  • unsettled
  • upset
  • wooden

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