Antonyms for unimpressive
Grammar : Adj |
Spell : im-pres-iv |
Phonetic Transcription : ɪmˈprɛs ɪv |
Definition 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
- 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
Synonyms for unimpressive
- average
- characterless
- common
- commonplace
- conventional
- dull
- everyday
- fair
- garden-variety
- insignificant
- mediocre
- modest
- no great shakes
- normal
- nothing special
- nothing to write home about
- pedestrian
- plain
- prosaic
- routine
- run-of-the-mill
- second-rate
- slight
- so-so
- trifling
- trivial
- typical
- undistinguished
- uneventful
- unexciting
- unimportant
- unimpressive
- uninspired
- unmemorable
- unnoteworthy
- unremarkable
- usual
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