unadorned

British  

/ ˌʌnəˈdɔːnd /

adjective

1. not decorated; plain

   a bare unadorned style

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Example Sentences

And though the recently renamed Lindhal Auditorium remains unadorned for the occasion, the expansive lobby and some adjacent indoor and outdoor areas are transformed, as was the case last year.

From The Wall Street Journal

In “Enchanted Escape,” we see her ostentatiously unadorned Sèvres porcelain plates and silverware for the royal toilette, a pink neoclassical armchair for resting after doing very little.

From The Wall Street Journal

Even a recurrent but unadorned lyric like “I hunger and thirst” becomes an instant earworm.

From Salon

His direct, unadorned vocals on 1961’s “You Better Move On” started an explosion of gospel-inflected Muscle Shoals pop, from Jimmy Hughes’s “Steal Away” to his cousin Percy Sledge’s “When a Man Loves a Woman.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Obsessive gathering has led to Lang’s getting down to unadorned basics.

From Los Angeles Times

Related Words

• austere