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Meanings of uninventive in English
Deficient in originality or creativity; lacking powers of invention.
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Synonyms
Examples for "sterile"
Examples for "sterile"
1
A successful SIT programme requires competitive sterile males of high biological quality.
2
This sterile situation has now been transformed by Mr McDowell's brave initiative.
3
Within a year, every Bajoran on the planet will be made sterile.
4
They want mystery and romance, not sterile common sense or conventional wisdom.
5
In the sterile Denali facilities, hygiene was second nature to all researchers.
1
Strike British accountancy group Hacker Young from the list of unimaginative accountants.
2
The columnist Chrissy Iley recently wrote that only unimaginative people were faithful.
3
This ceremony was an appeal to the unimaginative, the sluggish, the faint-hearted.
4
To the unimaginative visitor, the plan that has been adopted will appeal.
5
The Far Orientals ought to be a particularly unimaginative set of people.
1
The handful of uninspired stems I now possess is far from exciting.
2
As to other aspects of the film, I found the sets uninspired.
3
The poet may be an inspired illiterate, the romance-writer an uninspired hack.
4
The tone was all over the place and the writing was uninspired.
5
Does the thought of having chicken, yet again, got you feeling uninspired?
Usage of uninventive in English
1
How happened it that the American manufacturer did not pursue the same uninventive course?
2
But to-night mischief itself was quiet and uninventive.
3
Lem Perry, the leader of the claque, had a somewhat set speech, being uninventive in the construction of new phrases.
4
It is dilatory because it has no sense of coming things, it is uninventive and wasteful, it does not create, it takes advantage.
5
In peace and war alike the unimaginative, uninventive man is a burthen and a retardation, as he never was before in the world's history.
6
"Behold the end, O most uninventive and slow-witted Chang-ch'un!" he cried in a dreadful and awe-compelling voice.
7
"Have already thrice been narrated within Wu-whei by the versatile but exceedingly uninventive Kai Lung," remarked Wang Yu placidly.
Frequent collocations
Uninventive through the time