unembarrassed
- adjective
- /ˌʌnɪmˈbɛrəst/
- The children were unembarrassed while dancing in front of the crowd, enjoying the moment without a care.
Examples
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Opera is the last epic art, the last refuge in the giggly cynicism of our cultural world for the unembarrassed big gesture.
Fiction book (1996) -
Miss Hyde told her story matter-of-factly, unembarrassed.
Fiction book (1997) -
I suppose I do have one unembarrassed passion.
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"You going to a dance?" I laugh, unembarrassed.
Fiction book (1990) -
He comes in through the front door, unembarrassed and happy.
Fiction book (2000) -
The two positions just sit next to each other, evidently indifferent to and unembarrassed by the fact that they are not getting along.
Academic text (1998) -
Unable to drive, I walked unembarrassed by my defective stride through the city and on the bridges over the Mississippi River.
Academic text (2009) -
They were not to be over-familiar, but still to show their respect in an easy, unembarrassed, and graceful manner.
Academic text (1996) -
The father—the begetter of this child—looks unembarrassed as well, and the girls seem to think this is the normal thing to do in the forest.
Fiction book (1997) -
She spoke in an unembarrassed tone, sharing her thoughts with everyone around her.
Synonyms
Not embarrassed about what you say or do
Not sorry or embarrassed about what you do
Calm and not easily upset under pressure
Not worried about how you look and acting naturally with other people
Calm and not worried when things go wrong
Feeling no embarrassment or shame in a situation
Antonyms
How Embarrassed
Surface Forms
Morphology
unembarrassed = embarrassed (transparent) = un + embarrass + ed
The adjective is formed by adding the productive negative prefix 'un-' to the adjective 'embarrassed', yielding the straightforward opposite meaning.
Etymology
Unembarrassed starts with un- meaning 'not' and embarrassed, which comes from a French idea of being put behind a bar, or 'blocked'. So being unembarrassed is like not being 'blocked' by shame or awkwardness, and you feel free and confident.