Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Providing little or no information; not informative.
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- adjective lacking
useful orinteresting information
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- adjective lacking information
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Examples
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He was finishing his soup, his expression uninformative, but then he glanced down the table and caught her eye.
A Lady of His Own Laurens, Stephanie 2004
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The bone had stayed clean, Paabo said, because "it's rather small and uninteresting and was thrown in a big box of 'uninformative' bones and was not handled much by people."
Blogger News Network 2009
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Google's blog post doesn't say this outright, but this move is best read as a defensive move by Google, part of its ongoing struggle to scrub search-optimized but uninformative "content farm" pages from its results.
Google socializes search further, redesigns navigation bar 2011
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However, this federally restricted use of the word research does not mean that the observations from personal life (herein called Type I Investigations) or experimenter pretesting (Type II Investigations) are either unimportant or uninformative and should therefore be dismissed.
The Sacred Promise Phd Gary E. Schwartz 2011
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It seems the White House's idea of an review is a highly technical and uninformative snapshot of the financial status of the Energy Department's existing loan portfolio.
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However, this federally restricted use of the word research does not mean that the observations from personal life (herein called Type I Investigations) or experimenter pretesting (Type II Investigations) are either unimportant or uninformative and should therefore be dismissed.
The Sacred Promise Phd Gary E. Schwartz 2011
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However, this federally restricted use of the word research does not mean that the observations from personal life (herein called Type I Investigations) or experimenter pretesting (Type II Investigations) are either unimportant or uninformative and should therefore be dismissed.
The Sacred Promise Phd Gary E. Schwartz 2011
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How come almost all the columnists (except Fred Grimm, Carl Hiaasen and Dave Barry when we can get him) and 100% of the editorials in the Herald are boring and uninformative?
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The upshot has been a string of uninformative MoD briefings.
Hugh Muir's diary 2011
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A blog post outlines how Google proposes to lower the boom on uninformative sites that have been gaming its search algorithm a little too well.
Faster Forward: Google tweaks search to promote 'high-quality' sites 2011
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