Skip to content

unabashed

adjective

No English definition recorded for this entry.

L341425 on Wikidata ↗

Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˌʌnəˈbæʃt/

adj

Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English abashed English unabashed From un- + abashed.

  1. Not disconcerted or embarrassed.

    For the third time Allan looked at his lawyer. And for the third time his lawyer looked back at him quite unabashed.

    Armed with her utter faith in the goodness she must stand unabashed before the arrogance that scoffs at the power of spirit.

  2. Of actions, emotions, facts, etc.: that are not concealed or disguised, or not eliciting shame.

    [G]oodness is of a modest nature, easily discouraged, and when much privacy, elbowed in early life by unabashed vices, is apt to retire into extreme privacy, [...]

    [...]; a balance not artfully calculated, as her tears and her falterings showed, but resulting naturally from her unabashed sincerity.