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uninspired

un·in·spired
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Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • UK Pronunciation
    • UK IPA
    • [uhn-in-spahyuh rd]
    • /ˌʌn ɪnˈspaɪərd/
    • /ˌʌn.ɪnˈspaɪəd/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [uhn-in-spahyuh rd]
    • /ˌʌn ɪnˈspaɪərd/

Definitions of uninspired word

  • adjective uninspired not inspired; not creative or spirited: an uninspired performance; an uninspired teacher. 1
  • adjective uninspired sb: lacking stimulation 1
  • adjective uninspired If you describe something or someone as uninspired, you are criticizing them because they do not seem to have any original or exciting qualities. 0
  • adjective uninspired dull or ordinary; unimaginative 0
  • adjective uninspired not inspired; lacking spirit, creativity, zest, etc.; dull 0
  • verb uninspired simple past tense and past participle of uninspire. 0

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Origin of uninspired

First appearance:

before 1680
One of the 48% oldest English words
First recorded in 1680-90; un-1 + inspired

Historical Comparancy

Parts of speech for Uninspired

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation

uninspired popularity

A pretty common term. Usually people know it’s meaning, but prefer to use a more spread out synonym. About 69% of English native speakers know the meaning and use word.
According to our data about 55% of words is more used. This is a rare but used term. It occurs in the pages of specialized literature and in the speech of educated people.

uninspired usage trend in Literature

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Synonyms for uninspired

adj uninspired

  • arid — Arid land is so dry that very few plants can grow on it.
  • banausic — merely mechanical; materialistic; utilitarian
  • bonder — a long stone or brick laid in a wall as a header
  • characterless — If you describe something as characterless, you mean that it is dull and uninteresting.
  • cliched — If you describe something as clichéd, you mean that it has been said, done, or used many times before, and is boring or untrue.

adjective uninspired

  • dry — free from moisture or excess moisture; not moist; not wet: a dry towel; dry air.
  • featureless — without distinctive features; uninteresting, plain, or drab: a featureless landscape.
  • lacklustre — lacking brilliance or radiance; dull: lackluster eyes.
  • nowhere — in or at no place; not anywhere: The missing pen was nowhere to be found.
  • ordinary — of no special quality or interest; commonplace; unexceptional: One novel is brilliant, the other is decidedly ordinary; an ordinary person.

Antonyms for uninspired

adj uninspired

  • aflame — If something is on fire, you can say it is aflame.
  • creative — A creative person has the ability to invent and develop original ideas, especially in the arts.
  • demiurgic — Philosophy. Platonism. the artificer of the world. (in the Gnostic and certain other systems) a supernatural being imagined as creating or fashioning the world in subordination to the Supreme Being, and sometimes regarded as the originator of evil.
  • deviceful — full of devices; inventive; cunning
  • galvanic — pertaining to or produced by galvanism; producing or caused by an electric current.

adjective uninspired

  • agitable — easily agitated or moved
  • alarmable — able or prone to be alarmed or disturbed
  • excitable — Responding rather too readily to something new or stimulating; too easily excited.
  • excited — awakened
  • inspired — aroused, animated, or imbued with the spirit to do something, by or as if by supernatural or divine influence: an inspired poet.

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