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Meanings of unimaginative in inglés

Deficient in originality or creativity; lacking powers of invention.

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Lacking spontaneity or originality or individuality.

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Examples for "sterile"
1
A successful SIT programme requires competitive sterile males of high biological quality.
Pubmed
2
This sterile situation has now been transformed by Mr McDowell's brave initiative.
The Irish Times
3
Within a year, every Bajoran on the planet will be made sterile.
Star trek: terok nor: dawn of the eagles
4
They want mystery and romance, not sterile common sense or conventional wisdom.
The Guardian
5
In the sterile Denali facilities, hygiene was second nature to all researchers.
Mentats of Dune
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The handful of uninspired stems I now possess is far from exciting.
The Guardian
2
As to other aspects of the film, I found the sets uninspired.
Wired
3
The poet may be an inspired illiterate, the romance-writer an uninspired hack.
South Wind
4
The tone was all over the place and the writing was uninspired.
News.com.au
5
Does the thought of having chicken, yet again, got you feeling uninspired?
The South African
1
How happened it that the American manufacturer did not pursue the same uninventive course?
Scientific American, Volume 40, No. 13, March 29, 1879 / A Weekl...
2
But to-night mischief itself was quiet and uninventive.
The Grey Cloak
3
Lem Perry, the leader of the claque, had a somewhat set speech, being uninventive in the construction of new phrases.
Roads of Destiny
4
It is dilatory because it has no sense of coming things, it is uninventive and wasteful, it does not create, it takes advantage.
What is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War
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.
An Englishman Looks at the World / Being a Series of Unrestraine...

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Usage of unimaginative in inglés
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Strike British accountancy group Hacker Young from the list of unimaginative accountants.
The Irish Times
2
The columnist Chrissy Iley recently wrote that only unimaginative people were faithful.
The Guardian
3
This ceremony was an appeal to the unimaginative, the sluggish, the faint-hearted.
The Red Planet
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To the unimaginative visitor, the plan that has been adopted will appeal.
Virginia: the Old Dominion / As seen from its colonial waterway,...
5
The Far Orientals ought to be a particularly unimaginative set of people.
The Soul of the Far East
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Even her unimaginative nature began to tremble on the verge of superstition.
Heart and Science: A Story of the Present Time
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For it is remarkable how inane and unimaginative Utopias have generally been.
The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress
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He was too heavy, unimaginative, direct, to indulge in flights of oratory.
The United States Since the Civil War
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But the plot is dull, the characters wafer-thin and the futurology unimaginative.
The Irish Times
10
Active, serviceable, unimaginative men will often be content with a cheerful agnosticism.
The Chief End of Man
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For an unimaginative few, power has meant sexual power and stopped there.
The Guardian
12
For the brusque appearance of a very unimaginative, substantial, and undreamlike person?
Mrs. Falchion, Volume 2.
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The subject of this unimaginative but nonetheless stinging imprecation simply nodded.
Star trek movie tie-in
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Whether genuine or unimaginative illusion, I fail to notice the difference.
A nameless witch
15
It was a perfectly valid, if slightly unimaginative plan, with one obvious snag.
The Guardian
16
The land was barren beyond the imagination of the unimaginative Bennie.
The Man Who Rocked the Earth
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