uninventive

Examples

• All

• But it is a genuinely uninventive, uninspiring piece of culture.

• The "Mexican" was said to be primitive and uninventive, lazy and apathetic, politically corrupt and privately immoral, impoverished and ignorant.

  Academic text (2001)

• The report was filled with uninventive ideas that did not address the complex issues at hand.

• Her uninventive response made it clear that she hadn't put much thought into the project.

• Critics noted that the artist's latest work felt uninventive compared to her previous, more imaginative pieces.

Synonyms

S

sterile

vsuninventive

23 6.2

Not showing new ideas or creative thinking

emphasizes lack of originality rather than productivity or creative output

U

uninspired

vsuninventive

14 4.0

Not having new or interesting ideas

focuses on lack of originality only, not the extra boredom element

U

unimaginative

vsuninventive

9 4.2

Does not show creativity or new ideas

is the same but uses a different adjective with identical scope

U

unoriginal

vsuninventive

8 3.4

Not new or creative like ideas you have heard before

is the same lack of novelty but described with broader wording

U

uncreative

vsuninventive

2 4.3

Not having new ideas or ways of doing things

is the same idea but uses another common adjective form

U

uninvented

vsuninventive

8.2

Showing no original ideas or creativity

is the same in meaning but phrased with slightly different wording

U

unoriginate

vsuninventive

8.6

Not new or creative

is the same in meaning but uses different phrasing about novelty

N

nonoriginal

vsuninventive

5.0

Not new and made as a copy of another thing

means lack of originality in idea or style rather than being a copy

Antonyms

I

imaginative

60 3.7

Having many new and different ideas

I

inventive

40 3.8

Able to think of new and useful ideas

How Inventive

ingenious

75 5.8

inventive

40 3.8

creative

772 3.3

uninventive

1 5.8

unimaginative

9 4.2

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology