untheatrical
- a not suited to or characteristic of the stage or theater
a well-written but untheatrical play
an untheatrical personality
- But the guest of honor, Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak, 53, is as quiet, untheatrical and austere as his slain predecessor Sadat was flamboyant and Westernized.
- Offstage, Bert Lahr is a quiet, unpretentious, untheatrical fellow who looks and behaves so much like a middle-aged businessman that he is seldom recognized on the street.
- That he would select so untheatrical a character as Leni to explore is consistent with the novelist's decisions in past fiction.