unembellished

English

Etymology

un- +‎ embellished

Adjective

unembellished (comparative more unembellished, superlative most unembellished)

  1. Plain, unadorned, or simple.
    • 1941 October, C. Hamilton Ellis, Charles E. Lee, “The Welsh Highland Railway—III”, in Railway Magazine, page 435:
      Thus passed the last of the North Wales Narrow Gauge locomotives, and one of the few American-built locomotives to survive in Great Britain; the sadly cropped though once elegant Russell, and the unembellished yet useful Yankee plug-ugly.

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