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Synonyms for unimpressive


Grammar : Adj
Spell : im-pres-iv
Phonetic Transcription : ɪmˈprɛs ɪv

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Définition of unimpressive

Origin :
  • 1570s, "capable of being easily impressed," from impress + -ive. Meaning "capable of making an impression on the mind or senses" is from 1775. Related: Impressively; impressiveness.
  • As in unexceptional : adj ordinary
  • As in unimposing : adj insignificant
Example sentences :
  • The visit to the registrar's office had been short and unimpressive.
  • Extract from : « Cleo The Magnificent » by Louis Zangwill
  • He began to speak softly into it in his gentle, unimpressive voice.
  • Extract from : « Breaking Point » by James E. Gunn
  • The country is flat, and, viewed from the rail or high road, unimpressive.
  • Extract from : « Famous Women: George Sand » by Bertha Thomas
  • The data were far from complete but the published total was not unimpressive.
  • Extract from : « The University of Michigan » by Wilfred Shaw
  • There was a moment's silence while she did unimpressive things with her fan.
  • Extract from : « Flappers and Philosophers » by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Hideous as the face now was, there was a dignity of sorrow in it which was not unimpressive.
  • Extract from : « Tara » by Philip Meadows Taylor
  • The one is as unimpressive as a cart; the other as imposing as a man-of-war in the yard.
  • Extract from : « From Sea to Sea » by Rudyard Kipling
  • After it, everything else was bound to fall flat, dull, and unimpressive.
  • Extract from : « Sketches In The House (1893) » by T. P. O'Connor
  • Joe looked at them as they lay there, innocent and unimpressive.
  • Extract from : « In Old Kentucky » by Edward Marshall and Charles T. Dazey
  • Their features were unimpressive and, in too many instances, shockingly incomplete.
  • Extract from : « Bunker Bean » by Harry Leon Wilson

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