Uninteresting
[ʌn'ɪnt(ə)rɪstɪŋ] or [ʌn'ɪntrəstɪŋ]
Definition
(adj.) characteristic or suggestive of an institution especially in being uniform or dull or unimaginative; 'institutional food' .
(adj.) arousing no interest or attention or curiosity or excitement; 'a very uninteresting account of her trip' .
Inputed by Darlene--From WordNet
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Dull, tiresome, not interesting, tedious, wearisome.
Checker: Walter
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Dull, tedious, tiresome, unattractive,[See ATTRACTIVE_and_DULL]
Typist: Rowland
Examples
- Permit me to mention one little instance, which, though it relates to myself, will not be quite uninteresting to you. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- I chatted with everybody who addressed me, just long enough to ascertain that they were uninteresting people. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- But busy uninteresting joyous faces brought back despair to my heart. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- But the paper was uninteresting. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- If men find statecraft uninteresting, may it not be that statecraft _is_ uninteresting? Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- I do not mean to dwell on the subject of Worcester's love, and Worcester's devoted attentions to me, as I can conceive nothing more uninteresting. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- For how imperiously, how coolly, in disregard of all one's feeling, does the hard, cold, uninteresting course of daily realities move on! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Yes, said Will, in a tone that seemed to waive the subject as uninteresting. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- What a haughty, uninteresting creature that oldest Miss March is! Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- It was uninteresting sewing, but tonight no one grumbled. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- No letter is uninteresting which is written naturally and feelingly. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- It would be impossible and uninteresting in a work of this character to enumerate the mechanical details constituting the improvements of the century in paper-making machinery of all kinds. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The encampment which preceded the commencement of academic studies was very wearisome and uninteresting. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Yes; but Miss Morgan is so uninteresting, and not young. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Since, in general, people like to know the secret of what has surprised them, it may not prove uninteresting to devote a few articles to what may be called side-show science. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
Typist: Rowland