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UNIMAGINATIVE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does unimaginative mean?
• UNIMAGINATIVE (adjective)
The adjective UNIMAGINATIVE has 3 senses:
1. deficient in originality or creativity; lacking powers of invention
2. dealing only with concrete facts
3. lacking spontaneity or originality or individuality
Familiarity information: UNIMAGINATIVE used as an adjective is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Deficient in originality or creativity; lacking powers of invention
Synonyms:
sterile; unimaginative; uninspired; uninventive
Context example:
uninspired writing
Similar:
uncreative (not creative)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Dealing only with concrete facts
Similar:
practical (concerned with actual use or practice)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Lacking spontaneity or originality or individuality
Synonyms:
stereotyped; stereotypic; stereotypical; unimaginative
Context example:
even his profanity was unimaginative
Similar:
conventional (unimaginative and conformist)
Context examples
I should advise you— Professor Hilton paused and glared at him, unsympathetic and unimaginative as one of his own test-tubes.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
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