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unevocative

unevocative

7.9
Not causing strong images, memories, or feelings
  • adjective
  • /ˌʌnɪˈvɒkətɪv/
translation icon : sin evocación
  • The film was overly abstract and unevocative, failing to connect with the audience emotionally.

Examples

  • His descriptions of the landscape were so unevocative that it felt like reading a textbook.

  • Many of the artworks in the gallery were unevocative, lacking the emotional depth that makes a piece memorable.

  • They can also avoid a good deal of the ideological baggage accompanying the study of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe without, I hope, adopting the often sterile and unevocative perspectives of social science.

    Academic text (1991)

Synonyms

imageless
vsunevocative
6.6

Something that has no pictures or clear description to help you see it

leaves only weak impressions instead of vivid memories or feelings

Antonyms

evocative
23 6.7

Making you remember things or feel strong emotions

How Evocative

striking
56 3.8
vivid
102 3.3
evocative
23 6.7
unevocative
7.9
bland
31 2.8
plain
208 1.0

Surface Forms

unevocative positive

Morphology

unevocative = evocative (transparent) = un + evoc + ative

The word 'unevocative' is transparently derived from 'evocative' with the prefix 'un-' indicating negation.

Etymology

Unevocative breaks into un- 'not' and evoke 'to call up', and the voc- part is the same idea as in vocal 'voice'. So unevocative means 'not calling up' images or feelings, which is why it describes something that does not bring strong memories or emotions to mind.