as in boring
not having or showing an ability to think of new and interesting ideas; not imaginative
a predictable and unimaginative writer/book The service is great but the menu is unimaginative.
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Recent Examples of unimaginative
The claim here is that there’s a good reason why genius inventors don’t ask for the public’s buy-in before releasing a new invention: Society is too ignorant or unimaginative to know what good innovation looks like.
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Sigal Samuel, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
By the time the country began to emerge from behind the Iron Curtain in 1989, Czech food had become stodgy and unimaginative.
—David Farley, Travel + Leisure, 1 Sep. 2024
Or does this eagerness to categorize and contain our experiences offer a vision of life that is tame, restrictive, and finally unimaginative?
—Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 21 June 2024
But that is the point: Does the world need another unimaginative alternate jersey?
—Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2024
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Sigal Samuel, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
By the time the country began to emerge from behind the Iron Curtain in 1989, Czech food had become stodgy and unimaginative.
—David Farley, Travel + Leisure, 1 Sep. 2024
Or does this eagerness to categorize and contain our experiences offer a vision of life that is tame, restrictive, and finally unimaginative?
—Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 21 June 2024
But that is the point: Does the world need another unimaginative alternate jersey?
—Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2024
See all Example Sentences for unimaginative
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unimaginative
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Black Friday Saks Fifth Avenue Jewelry Deals Basics don’t have to be boring—and this Black Friday, why not restock your everyday essentials?Jake Henry Smith, Glamour, 29 Nov. 2024
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Winner of the Locarno Jury Prize, this daring essay-film is radical and often bleak but, even at its nearly 3-hour run time, never boring.Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Nov. 2024
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The existing pink floor and wall tiles were doused in a sterile shade of white, creating an unwelcoming experience for our guests.Betsy Cribb Watson, Southern Living, 26 Nov. 2024
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The statistics are sterile, but the sound of absence hums: their voices missing from the kitchens, the markets, the churches, the streets of Florence, muted instead inside convent walls.Michelle Weber, Longreads, 15 Nov. 2024
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However, even for a slow jog, that’s exactly what happened.Caleb Harris, Austin American-Statesman, 22 Nov. 2024
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However, Prince William wants to take things very slow for his wife to ease her back into normalcy.Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 22 Nov. 2024
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The big choices characters do make are all almost incomprehensibly stupid.Erik Kain, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
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Nobody directing people and stupid mazes with limited entrances.Pete Sampson, The Athletic, 23 Nov. 2024
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This somewhat surprising 8,600 improvement may be consumers tiring of online commerce and wanting to get out to shop.Jonathan Lansner, Orange County Register, 28 Nov. 2024
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But fights about politics — or simply not knowing what to say — can sometimes make for a tiring experience.Natasha Frost, New York Times, 25 Nov. 2024
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Sweet Rose High Rolled Accent Chair Brighten up dull spaces with this floral accent chair that’s on major sale ahead of Black Friday.Kelsey Fredricks, People.com, 27 Nov. 2024
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Peter Field and Adam Morgan call it the ‘extraordinary cost of dull’.Sairah Ashman, Forbes, 26 Nov. 2024
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