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UNEMBARRASSED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unembarrassed mean? 

UNEMBARRASSED (adjective)
  The adjective UNEMBARRASSED has 1 sense:

1. not embarrassedplay

  Familiarity information: UNEMBARRASSED used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


UNEMBARRASSED (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Not embarrassed

Synonyms:

unabashed; unembarrassed

Context example:

an unembarrassed greeting as if nothing untoward had happened

Similar:

unashamed (used of persons or their behavior; feeling no shame)


 Context examples 


His circumstances are now unembarrassed—he suffers from no evil of that kind; and he thinks only that he has married a woman of a less amiable temper than yourself.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Elizabeth, who had expected to find in her as acute and unembarrassed an observer as ever Mr. Darcy had been, was much relieved by discerning such different feelings.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Their dress had every advantage, their faces were rather pretty, their spirits extremely good, their manner unembarrassed and pleasant; they were of consequence at home, and favourites abroad.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

No sooner did he appear than Elizabeth wisely resolved to be perfectly easy and unembarrassed; a resolution the more necessary to be made, but perhaps not the more easily kept, because she saw that the suspicions of the whole party were awakened against them, and that there was scarcely an eye which did not watch his behaviour when he first came into the room.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)



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