[ adj ] not decorated with something to increase its beauty or distinction <adj.all>
We stroll through the monks' graveyard, neat, unadorned tomb stones laid out like a soldier's cemetery. Before going, a look at the visitor's book.
Mr. Reagan does indeed share Gatsby's unadorned meliorism.
Ms. von Flotow, for example, has a conservative, unadorned look.
Clean, polished but unadorned and boring, the Tolerance Dresser dresses out of a sense of obligation - for the tribe and not as an individual. Real power dressing is far from the jutting shoulder pads and drop-dead suits of the 1980s.
Two small photographs of the chairman and managing director of the Japanese parent company are barely tolerated in the otherwise unadorned visitors' room.
But now, as the key recessionary mood lingers, even celebration is in soft focus. Although evening style is simple and unadorned, it is not heavy or dull. Instead it is based on a delicate lightness and the finest of fabrics.
An unadorned version serves as the West German flag.
The idea is to suggest the unadorned and large but enclosed space of an artist's studio.