unvarnished adj

1 not having a coating of stain or varnish [syn: unstained]

2 free from any effort to soften to disguise; "the plain and unvarnished truth"; "the unvarnished candor of old people and children" [syn: plain]

English

Adjective

1. Not having been coated with varnish (or other surface treatment).
2. Pure, natural, unmodified (especially in the phrase "unvarnished truth").

Translations

Spartan, arcadian, ascetic, austere, authentic, bald, bare, blank, bona fide, bucolic, candid, card-carrying, common, commonplace, dinkum, direct, dry, dull, following the letter, frank, genuine, good, guileless, homely, homespun, honest, honest-to-God, inartificial, lawful, lean, legitimate, lifelike, literal, matter-of-fact, naked, native, natural, naturalistic, naturelike, neat, nude, open, openhearted, original, outspoken, pastoral, plain, plain-speaking, plain-spoken, prosaic, prosing, prosy, pure, real, realistic, rightful, rural, rustic, severe, simon-pure, simple, simple-speaking, sincere, sober, spare, stark, sterling, straight, straightforward, sure-enough, true to life, true to nature, true to reality, unadorned, unadulterated, unaffected, unarrayed, unartificial, unassumed, unassuming, unbeguileful, unbeguiling, uncalculating, uncolored, uncomplicated, unconcealed, unconcocted, uncopied, uncounterfeited, undeceitful, undeceiving, undeceptive, undecked, undecorated, undesigning, undisguised, undisguising, undissembled, undissembling, undissimulated, undissimulating, undistorted, undressed, unembellished, unexaggerated, unfabricated, unfanciful, unfeigned, unfeigning, unfictitious, unflattering, unfurbished, ungarnished, unimaginative, unimagined, unimitated, uninvented, unornamented, unpoetical, unpretended, unpretending, unpretentious, unqualified, unromantic, unsimulated, unsophisticated, unspecious, unspoiled, unsynthetic, untrimmed, verbal, verbatim, veridical, verisimilar, word-for-word