adj
Meaning 1
Arousing little or no interest; boring or uneventful.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
uninteresting
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CMU ARPABET: AH0 N IH1 N T R AH0 S T IH0 NG Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adjective
Meaning 2
arousing no interest or attention or curiosity or excitement
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- a very uninteresting account of her trip
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: interesting
adjective satellite
Meaning 3
characteristic or suggestive of an institution especially in being uniform or dull or unimaginative
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- institutional food
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English interest English -ing English interesting English uninteresting From un- + interesting.
Across languages
Translations
20 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Czech: nezajímavý — arousing little or no interest; boring or uneventful
- Dutch: oninteressant — arousing little or no interest; boring or uneventful
- Esperanto: seninteresa — arousing little or no interest; boring or uneventful
- Finnish: tylsä — arousing little or no interest; boring or uneventful
- Finnish: ikävystyttävä — arousing little or no interest; boring or uneventful
- French: inintéressant — arousing little or no interest; boring or uneventful
- Georgian: უინტერესო (uinṭereso) — arousing little or no interest; boring or uneventful
- Georgian: არასაინტერესო (arasainṭereso) — arousing little or no interest; boring or uneventful
- German: uninteressant — arousing little or no interest; boring or uneventful
- Greek: αδιάφορος (adiáforos) — arousing little or no interest; boring or uneventful
- Irish: neamhshuimiúil — arousing little or no interest; boring or uneventful
- Irish: neamhspéisiúil — arousing little or no interest; boring or uneventful
- Irish: leamh — arousing little or no interest; boring or uneventful
- Italian: poco interessante — arousing little or no interest; boring or uneventful
- Māori: mākihakiha — arousing little or no interest; boring or uneventful
- Polish: nieciekawy — arousing little or no interest; boring or uneventful
- Russian: неинтере́сный (neinterésnyj) — arousing little or no interest; boring or uneventful
- Spanish: poco interesante — arousing little or no interest; boring or uneventful
- Spanish: sin interés — arousing little or no interest; boring or uneventful
- Spanish: ininteresante — arousing little or no interest; boring or uneventful
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