unglamorous
adjEtymology From un- + glamorous.
1
Not glamorous; humdrum or prosaic.
- Whitney is absorbed especially by Dublin's unglamorous interstitial zones: the new housing estates and labyrinths of roads, watercourses and railways where the city peters into its commuter belt.2014 August 23, Neil Hegarty, “Hidden City: Adventures and Explorations in Dublin by Karl Whitney, review: 'a necessary corrective' [print version: Re-Joycing in Dublin, p. R25]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review):
- And at the unglamorous end of upgrade work, it plans to improve drainage.2022 November 16, Philip Haigh, “Trans-Pennine... transformative”, in RAIL, number 970, page 38:
- Derived terms
- unglamorousness
- Related terms
- unglamorously