unengaging
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4.6
- adjective
- /ˌʌnɪnˈɡeɪdʒɪŋ/
:
poco atractivo
- "You're not saying that she's a suspect, are you?" Bannen's eyes were a mild and unengaging shade of gray, the color of the brackish water in the drains Jury had passed on his trip from London.
Examples
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What must it be like to be a student who has already achieved proficiency, or who had the ability to achieve proficiency but chose instead to drop out because school was unengaging and uninteresting?
Academic text (2006) -
This leads to a type of peace pact with these students in which schools set up meaningless demands in exchange for these students' passive forbearance of a totally unengaging experience.
Academic text (1995) -
So the whole thing was hugely unengaging.
Blog text (20) -
I found it completely boring and unengaging.
Blog text (2) -
She offers no resistance, but she recounts her dreams with the same flat voice, and they are dry and unengaging.
Blog text (24) -
And it does have an interest in reducing the amount of unengaging post "spam" that unskillful marketers put up.
Blog text (30) -
Basically, they all tie back to the author being overly verbose, repetitive, or just plain unengaging.
Blog text (15) -
Anna Karenina is beautiful to look at, but mostly unengaging—a film that's more enamored with its own technique than it is with Tolstoy's story.
Blog text (5) -
The scene, a kind of Third World cliché, was unengaging until I caught sight, unexpectedly, of great runs of vertical space on the right bank, variegated fields rising perhaps 900 feet, straight up into a blue sky.
Academic text (2009) -
The lecture was so unengaging that several students fell asleep.
Synonyms
721
1.0
Not interesting and making you feel tired or impatient
20
1.4
Not exciting and likely to make people bored
14
4.0
Not having new or interesting ideas
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3.5
Not interesting or exciting
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3.2
Not interesting or exciting
2
4.6
Not pleasant or welcoming and likely to keep people away
Does not interest or convince people
Making people feel bored
Not interesting to watch, read or listen to
Does not interest, excite, or make people feel energetic
Not causing excitement or interest
Not causing strong feelings or interest
Not made more interesting or exciting
Not attractive or interesting
Does not make people feel strong emotion
Not causing strong feelings or interest in people
Boring and not interesting to think about or feel
Antonyms
How Engaging
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Unengaging is made from un- meaning 'not' and engaging, from engage which means 'to hold someone's attention' or 'to join in'. So, unengaging describes something that does not hold interest.