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unfancy en · 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 fancy English unfancy From un- + fancy.

Meanings

  1. Not fancy; simple
    • Physically, the piece is slight: an odd-shaped, four-inch-across scrap of blue paper marked with unfancy parallel ink strokes and white highlights. 2009 January 23, Holland Cotter, “Where Lines Become a Kind of Language”, in New York Times:

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more unfancy Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most unfancy Degree=Sup lexicographic