Unattractive
[ʌnə'træktɪv] or [,ʌnə'træktɪv]
Definition
(adj.) lacking beauty or charm; 'as unattractive as most mining regions' .
(adj.) lacking power to arouse interest; 'being unemployed is a most unattractive prospect' .
(adj.) not appealing to the senses; 'untempting food' .
Typist: Sadie--From WordNet
Definition
adj. not attractive.—adv. Unattract′ively.—n. Unattract′iveness.
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Examples
- And what does it signify whether unmarried and never-to-be-married women are unattractive and inelegant or not? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Sometimes she sat among the louts in the cinema: rakish-looking, unattractive louts they were. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- She was far too pretty to be unattractive anywhere, and far too quick of perception to be below the tone of her new career. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- After a while I tired of this work, as hoeing corn in a hot sun is unattractive, and I did not wonder that it had built up cities. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- As to his vulgar wife, she was ugly and unattractive enough to disgust a man with the whole fair sex, since such unfair things formed part of it. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- It is a very unattractive wisdom. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- She might have added that her plain aspect, homely, precise dress, and phlegmatic, unattractive manner were to her so many additional recommendations. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
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