Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: uninteresting
IPA transcription: [ən'ɪntɹəstɪŋ]
adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: uninteresting
    Meaning: characteristic or suggestive of an institution especially in being uniform or dull or unimaginative; "institutional food"
  • Synonyms: uninteresting
    Meaning: arousing no interest or attention or curiosity or excitement; "a very uninteresting account of her trip"
Usage examples
  • But busy, uninteresting, joyous faces brought back despair to my heart.
  • It seemed quite impossible and quite uninteresting to imagine anything happening after he was dead.
  • "Perhaps a hundred years hence--the date I have named in my will for their publication-- someone may think them not so uninteresting.
  • After a late breakfast he walked out far away, into the Regent's Park, and there, wandering among the uninteresting paths, he devised triumphs of oratory for himself.
  • She had not expected much of Mr. Fairford, since married men were intrinsically uninteresting, and his baldness and grey moustache seemed naturally to relegate him to the background; but she had looked for some brilliant youths of her own age--in her inmost heart she had looked for Mr. Popple.
  • "You know, of course," the doctor went on quietly and deliberately, "that everything in this world is insignificant and uninteresting except the higher spiritual manifestations of the human mind. Intellect draws a sharp line between the animals and man, suggests the divinity of the latter, and to some extent even takes the place of the immortality which does not exist.