as in boring
causing weariness, restlessness, or lack of interest
the tour guide's spiel was uninteresting and not particularly informative
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Recent Examples of uninteresting
For me, as a storyteller, that’s so wildly uninteresting.
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Mike Ryan, IndieWire, 21 Apr. 2025
Educating Entrepreneurs: Intrinsic Motivation And Engagement A significant hurdle in traditional educational contexts is fostering intrinsic motivation, particularly when students perceive assignments as irrelevant or uninteresting.
—Ray Ravaglia, Forbes.com, 15 Apr. 2025
This is incisive and great, getting at uninteresting people misappropriating culture and being lame ironists.
—Andy Hoglund, EW.com, 9 Mar. 2025
Their drama — seen in multiple flashbacks, as well as the tension that exists in the present day — is deeply uninteresting.
—Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 3 Apr. 2025
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Mike Ryan, IndieWire, 21 Apr. 2025
Educating Entrepreneurs: Intrinsic Motivation And Engagement A significant hurdle in traditional educational contexts is fostering intrinsic motivation, particularly when students perceive assignments as irrelevant or uninteresting.
—Ray Ravaglia, Forbes.com, 15 Apr. 2025
This is incisive and great, getting at uninteresting people misappropriating culture and being lame ironists.
—Andy Hoglund, EW.com, 9 Mar. 2025
Their drama — seen in multiple flashbacks, as well as the tension that exists in the present day — is deeply uninteresting.
—Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 3 Apr. 2025
See All Example Sentences for uninteresting
Recent Examples of Synonyms for uninteresting
Adjective
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Corner infielders Carlos Santana (1B, CLE): The definition of boring and solid.—
Owen Poindexter,
New York Times,
13 June 2025
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Much happens in the sixth episode, but most of it is pretty boring like the rest of this season.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
10 June 2025
Adjective
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Seeing that expansion and contraction over and over for six episodes (let alone three seasons) can grow tiring, and Season 3 certainly suffers from a sense of exhaustion.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
27 June 2025
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Now in his 80s trips to the islands are more challenging, and maintaining a boat that can make the journey is expensive and tiring.—
Kathleen Rellihan,
Outside Online,
8 June 2025
Adjective
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And what often emerges instead is a dull kind of numbness, chronic irritability or total withdrawal.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
25 June 2025
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Commercial or bulk matcha is often a dull yellowish or brown color, coarse in texture, and noticeably bitter.—
Devorah Lev-Tov,
Vogue,
20 June 2025
Adjective
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Mexican men were dismissed as violent Panchos and stupid Pedros.—
Gustavo Arellano,
Los Angeles Times,
24 June 2025
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There’s more stupid romance around harder substances but few chemicals are more hazardous to ambition than THC.—
Benjamin Hale
June 23,
Literary Hub,
23 June 2025
Adjective
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The music is, for the most part, quiet and slow, often hovering at the edge of silence.—
Alex Ross,
New Yorker,
23 June 2025
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Repeated waxing weakens follicles, making hair grow in finer and slower over time.—
Nia Bowers,
USA Today,
23 June 2025
Adjective
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Sculpting a modern tale about a porcelain company that’s 250 years old has a lot to do with understanding how younger generations come together, dine and entertain.—
Sofia Celeste,
Footwear News,
17 June 2025
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International students make up about 27% of the student body at the nation’s oldest and wealthiest university.—
Andy Rose,
CNN Money,
5 June 2025
Adjective
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This record is a gentle correction for listeners who think of blues as either dusty or loud.—
Philip Martin,
Arkansas Online,
19 June 2025
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Workers in overalls walk down dusty streets that turn into dusty tracks before petering out to nowhere.—
Kim Hjelmgaard,
USA Today,
14 June 2025
Adjective
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After dark, there’s a Midnight Snack cart delivering warm, comfort-food bites to weary red-eye travelers (because New York never sleeps, and neither do airport people).—
Paul Rubio,
AFAR Media,
23 June 2025
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But others may hear Xi Jinping’s call not as a rallying cry but as a weary echo of the past.—
JOSEPH TORIGIAN,
Foreign Affairs,
23 June 2025
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“Uninteresting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/uninteresting. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.
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