Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not imaginative; lacking or not characterized by imagination; prosaic.
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- adjective not
imaginative
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective dealing only with concrete facts
- adjective deficient in originality or creativity; lacking powers of invention
- adjective lacking spontaneity or originality or individuality
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Examples
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Everything about their parents 'generation looked ordinary and unimaginative from the vantage of those summers of love, women's liberation, Woodstock and demonstrations against the war in Vietnam.
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Monty reckons he didn't come up with the Reality Check tag and even goes so far to call it unimaginative.
2006 May « Squash 2006
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Monty reckons he didn't come up with the Reality Check tag and even goes so far to call it unimaginative.
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Plunged in darkness again, the man, whom Rose had called unimaginative, suffered all the untold agony of soul which had been hers during the moment in which she had been forced to make up her mind and carry out the act, only his anguish was the more intense, for hers was the quick action and his the forced inaction of a man bound to a stake, within full sight of a tragedy being enacted upon a loved one.
'Smiles' A Rose of the Cumberlands Eliot H. Robinson
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Also, for what it's worth, you are free to think Card is a poor writer, but I'm not sure the words 'unimaginative' or 'hack' mean what you think they mean.
A Complex Shadow SVGL 2009
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Christmas television viewing at 10-year high despite 'unimaginative' schedule
BSkyB: only 1 in 20 back Murdoch takeover, poll reveals 2010
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Christmas television viewing at 10-year high despite 'unimaginative' schedule
Christmas television viewing at 10-year high despite 'unimaginative' schedule 2010
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Christmas television viewing at 10-year high despite 'unimaginative' schedule
Christmas television viewing at 10-year high despite 'unimaginative' schedule 2010
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Christmas television viewing at 10-year high despite 'unimaginative' schedule
BSkyB: only 1 in 20 back Murdoch takeover, poll reveals 2010
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Christmas television viewing at 10-year high despite 'unimaginative' schedule
BSkyB: only 1 in 20 back Murdoch takeover, poll reveals 2010
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