All institutional synonyms
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I i adj institutional
- uninteresting — engaging or exciting and holding the attention or curiosity: an interesting book.
- corporate — Corporate means relating to business corporations or to a particular business corporation.
- governmental — the political direction and control exercised over the actions of the members, citizens, or inhabitants of communities, societies, and states; direction of the affairs of a state, community, etc.; political administration: Government is necessary to the existence of civilized society.
- rudimentary — pertaining to rudiments or first principles; elementary: a rudimentary knowledge of geometry.
- bromidic — ordinary; dull
- banal — If you describe something as banal, you do not like it because you think that it is so ordinary that it is not at all effective or interesting.
- depressing — Something that is depressing makes you feel sad and disappointed.
- dreary — causing sadness or gloom.
- dry — free from moisture or excess moisture; not moist; not wet: a dry towel; dry air.
- dull — not sharp; blunt: a dull knife.
- humdrum — lacking variety; boring; dull: a humdrum existence.
- insipid — without distinctive, interesting, or stimulating qualities; vapid: an insipid personality.
- monotonous — lacking in variety; tediously unvarying: the monotonous flat scenery.
- prosaic — commonplace or dull; matter-of-fact or unimaginative: a prosaic mind.
- pedestrian — a person who goes or travels on foot; walker.
- jejune — without interest or significance; dull; insipid: a jejune novel.
adjective institutional
- official — a person appointed or elected to an office or charged with certain duties.
- recognized — to identify as something or someone previously seen, known, etc.: He had changed so much that one could scarcely recognize him.
- recognised — to identify as something or someone previously seen, known, etc.: He had changed so much that one could scarcely recognize him.
- formal — being in accordance with the usual requirements, customs, etc.; conventional: to pay one's formal respects.
- established — (of a custom, belief, practice, or institution) Having been in existence for a long time and therefore recognized and generally accepted.
- organised — to form as or into a whole consisting of interdependent or coordinated parts, especially for united action: to organize a committee.
- organized — affiliated in an organization, especially a union: organized dockworkers.
- influential — having or exerting influence, especially great influence: three influential educators.
- utilitarian — object: functional, useful
- uniform — identical or consistent, as from example to example, place to place, or moment to moment: uniform spelling; a uniform building code.
- functional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
- ugly — very unattractive or unpleasant to look at; offensive to the sense of beauty; displeasing in appearance.
- ordinary — of no special quality or interest; commonplace; unexceptional: One novel is brilliant, the other is decidedly ordinary; an ordinary person.
- bland — If you describe someone or something as bland, you mean that they are rather dull and unexciting.
- elementary — Of or relating to the most rudimentary aspects of a subject.