Word Study
unassuming
CIDE DICTIONARY
unassuming, a.
Not assuming; not bold or forward; not arrogant or presuming; humble; modest; retiring; as, an unassuming youth; unassuming manners. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
unassuming, adj. not pretentious or arrogant; modest.
Derivative
unassumingly adv. unassumingness n.
THESAURUS
unassuming
Bohemian, affable, arcadian, authentic, bona fide, bucolic, candid, card-carrying, casual, cordial, degage, dinkum, direct, easy, easygoing, familiar, folksy, following the letter, free and easy, genuine, good, gracious, guileless, haymish, homely, homespun, homey, honest, honest-to-God, humble, inartificial, informal, irregular, lawful, legitimate, lifelike, literal, loose, lowly, meek, modest, native, natural, naturalistic, naturelike, offhand, offhanded, original, pastoral, plain, pure, real, realistic, relaxed, rightful, rural, simon-pure, simple, sincere, sociable, sterling, straightforward, sure-enough, true to life, true to nature, true to reality, unadorned, unadulterated, unaffected, unambitious, unartificial, unaspiring, unassumed, unbeguileful, unbeguiling, unboastful, uncalculating, unceremonious, uncolored, unconcocted, unconstrained, unconventional, uncopied, uncounterfeited, undeceitful, undeceiving, undeceptive, undesigning, undisguised, undisguising, undissembling, undissimulated, undissimulating, undistorted, unembellished, unexaggerated, unfabricated, unfanciful, unfeigned, unfeigning, unfictitious, unflattering, unimagined, unimitated, unimposing, uninvented, unobtrusive, unofficial, unostentatious, unpresuming, unpresumptuous, unpretended, unpretending, unpretentious, unqualified, unromantic, unsimulated, unspecious, unspoiled, unstudied, unsynthetic, untrimmed, unvarnished, verbal, verbatim, veridical, verisimilar, word-for-wordROGET THESAURUS
unassuming
Modesty
N modesty, humility, diffidence, timidity, retiring disposition, unobtrusiveness, bashfulness, mauvaise honte, blush, blushing, verecundity, self-knowledge, reserve, constraint, demureness, blushing honors, modest, diffident, humble, timid, timorous, bashful, shy, nervous, skittish, coy, sheepish, shamefaced, blushing, overmodest, unpretending, unpretentious, unobtrusive, unassuming, unostentatious, unboastful, unaspiring, poor in spirit, out of countenance, reserved, constrained, demure, humbly, quietly, privately, without ceremony, without beat of drum, sans fa, not stepping o'er the bounds of modesty, thy modesty's a candle to thy merit.For further exploring for "unassuming" in Webster Dictionary Online