Unimposing

ppl. a. [UN-¹ 10.]

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† 1. Not burdensome or oppressive. Obs.^–1

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1736. Thomson, Liberty, V. 626. Beauteous Order reigns, Manly Submission, unimposing Toil.

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2. Unimpressive.

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1809. C. Simeon, in W. Carus, Life (1847), 272. The slow unimposing voice.

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1854. Milman, Lat. Christianity, VII. ii. III. 169. A grey haired man … of small unimposing stature.

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1871. Earle, Philol. Eng. Tongue, 421. A feature … unimposing in its appearance.

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So Unimposingly adv.

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1880. Miss Bird, Japan, I. 15. The British Consulate, imposingly ugly;… the Union Church,… unimposingly so.

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