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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
uninteresting

"not capable of exciting interest," 1769, from un- (1) "not" + interesting.

Wiktionary
uninteresting

a. Arousing little or no interest; boring or uneventful.

WordNet
uninteresting
  1. adj. arousing no interest or attention or curiosity or excitement; "a very uninteresting account of her trip" [ant: interesting]

  2. characteristic or suggestive of an institution especially in being uniform or dull or unimaginative; "institutional food"

Usage examples of "uninteresting".

But that good chance was denied to the young couple, doubtless in order that this story might be written, in which numbers of their wonderful adventures are narrated-- adventures which could never have occurred to them if they had been housed and sheltered under the comfortable uninteresting forgiveness of Miss Crawley.

The dress was merely uninteresting, not unconventional in the striking way he liked loose clothes on the tall bodies of the Afrikaans state theatre actresses and art school lec turers who were the women he kept around him.

Rangoon, one of the chief seaports of the Burman Empire, situated on one of the numerous mouths of the Irrawaddy, and having a splendid harbor, is yet one of the meanest, and most uninteresting cities that can well be imagined.

If there are more Kicking Deers in the area, they all have unlisted phone numbers and live uninteresting lives.

Indeed they set him down as one of the dullest and most uninteresting people they had ever met.

And Hades was nothing like the uninteresting god Demeter had described.

At last, shortly after sunset, we descended a long, steep hillside, and went into camp in the valley of the Rio Grande, just without the gates of a small town, uninteresting in character, and Sabana Grande by name.

Between junior and real college, Barry Zito refines the delivery of his curveball to the point where it is indistinguishable, as it leaves his hand, from his otherwise uninteresting fastball.

Or, if you start such a question to him, expect not, that he will employ his mind with any anxiety about a subject, so remote, so uninteresting, and which so much exceeds the bounds of his capacity.

There could be no more flat and uninteresting surface than this field, a damp wet brown, water slowly draining out of the furrows, not a bird that I can see.

The girls are not to blame if they are as vapid and uninteresting as the ideal girls they have been associating with in the books they have read.

At any rate, instead of devoting himself solely to the Widow, he happened to be just at that moment talking in a very interested and, apparently, not uninteresting way to his right-hand neighbor, who, on her part, never looked more charmingly,--as Mr.

This product is known as the Cashier, an anthropomorphous growth, watered by religious doctrine, trained up in fear of the guillotine, pruned by vice, to flourish on a third floor with an estimable wife by his side and an uninteresting family.

Now a ditch is a ditch, assumably muddy, and usually traversing uninteresting and monotonous landscapes.

We had a long and intensely uninteresting conversation about the maladies to which chickens are subject.