understated

Domain: Universal Words

Part of speech: adjective

(approving) if a style, colour, etc. is understated, it is pleasing and elegant in a way that is not too obvious SYNSUBTLE

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This is a English–English dictionary entry.

Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.

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understatedEnglish›ChineseGetWord Corpus understatedEnglish›ChineseMain Dictionary

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