unadorned

/ ˌʌnəˈdɔːnd /

adjective

1. not decorated; plain

   a bare unadorned style

Example Sentences

I ended up going pretty retro and unadorned, ordering a grilled cheese and fries, but the grilled cheese happened to have a bacon jam on it.

From Salon

“Because of high interest rates,” he said, “there’s no mobility out of rental situations to buy homes. Everyone is stuck — homeowners with golden handcuffs, renters basically with unadorned handcuffs.”

From Los Angeles Times

Two songs released in advance, “The Thing at Hand” and “New Bible,” are starkly unadorned musical close-ups.

From New York Times

The music producer Philip Weinrobe, who has known Lenker for nearly a decade, described her unadorned, crisp singing as “so honest and so true.”

From New York Times

“Let me say it with the power of office” and “with unadorned clarity: There could be war in Sweden,” Mr. Bohlin said at a security conference.

From New York Times

Related Words

• austere