Synonyms for pretenseless
- candid
- forthright
- genuine
- sincere
- truthful
- unequivocal
- aboveboard
- barefaced
- direct
- frank
- guileless
- honorable
- just
- laid on the line
- level
- like it is
- mellow
- open
- outspoken
- plain
- plain-dealing
- right-on
- square-shooting
- straight
- straight-arrow
- talking turkey
- unconcealed
- undisguised
- undissembled
- undissembling
- unvarnished
- up front
- upright
- upstanding
- veracious
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Antonyms for pretenseless
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EXAMPLES FROM THE WEB FOR PRETENSELESS
Fit symbols of existence in this pretenseless home were the broken column and the gates ajar.
WORD ORIGIN
also pretence, early 15c., "the putting forth of a claim," from Anglo-French pretensse, Middle French pretensse (Modern French prétense), from Medieval Latin noun use of fem. of Late Latin praetensus, altered from Latin praetentus, past participle of praetendere (see pretend). Meaning "false or hypocritical profession" is from 1540s.
MORE RELATED WORDS FOR PRETENSELESS
straightforward
adjectivehonest- aboveboard
- barefaced
- candid
- direct
- forthright
- frank
- genuine
- guileless
- honorable
- just
- laid on the line
- level
- like it is
- mellow
- open
- outspoken
- plain
- plain-dealing
- pretenseless
- right-on
- sincere
- square-shooting
- straight
- straight-arrow
- talking turkey
- truthful
- unconcealed
- undisguised
- undissembled
- undissembling
- unequivocal
- unvarnished
- up front
- upright
- upstanding
- veracious
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the
Philip Lief Group.