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Unpretentious vs Unobtrusive - What's the difference?

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Unpretentious is a related term of unobtrusive.


As adjectives the difference between unpretentious and unobtrusive

is that unpretentious is simple, humble, not pretentious, plain while unobtrusive is not noticeable or blatant; inconspicuous.

unpretentious

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Simple, humble, not pretentious, plain.

    • Synonyms

    * See

    Antonyms

    * pretentious

    Derived terms

    * unpretentiously * unpretentiousness

    unobtrusive

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Not noticeable or blatant; inconspicuous.
  • *
    • Sometimes she and Miss Baker talked at once, unobtrusively and with a bantering inconsequence that was never quite chatter, that was as cool as their white dresses and their impersonal eyes in the absence of all desire.