CARDBOARD Synonyms: 115 Similar and Opposite Words

cardboard

adjective

Definition of cardboard

as in ready-made

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Recent Examples of cardboard Polos, walking home from the theatre late at night, still wearing his makeup, ashes in a cardboard urn in his backpack. — Anne Carson, New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2025 The cardboard Christmas houses, decorated with glitter, twigs, and other items, are said to have originated with the Moravians who once created decorative Christmas villages built around Christmas trees, generally as an extension of a nativity. — Nicole Letts, Southern Living, 26 Nov. 2024 Her family celebrated holidays in hotels with cardboard Christmas trees. — Amanda Rosa, Miami Herald, 6 June 2024 One older trick to protect young stems is fitting the cardboard portion of a toilet paper roll around the stem as a barrier. — Tom MacCubbin, Orlando Sentinel, 21 Jan. 2023 See All Example Sentences for cardboard

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Adjective

The warehouse chain just announced the debut of their Member’s Mark Choice Beef Pot Roast with Carrots and Potatoes, ready-made to take the stress out of meal planning.

— Abigail Wilt, Southern Living, 10 Aug. 2026
In addition, the intricate designs on the dress Diana wore were hand-embroidered by Elizabeth, whereas the fabric for the backup was ready-made.

— Emma Banks, PEOPLE, 1 Aug. 2026

Definition of ready-made

Adjective

The technique is already widely used in laboratories, but conventional NMR systems are difficult to take into the field.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 23 Sep. 2026
Silicon sampling, which has gained prominence in recent months, is much faster and far cheaper to complete than conventional polling.

— W. Joseph Campbell, The Conversation, 22 Sep. 2026

Definition of conventional

Adjective

Spurs kept a clean sheet, an achievement to build on after shipping five in their opening two, and looked solid, if a little unimaginative in midfield.

— Elias Burke, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2026
Some critics described him as unimaginative but capable, and he was criticized for extending the defense of Bakhmut at great human cost.

— Issy Ronald, CNN Money, 21 July 2026

Definition of unimaginative

Adjective

Summary Leaders are increasingly sounding generic, often using similar buzzwords, a trend exacerbated by AI's ability to generate competent but unoriginal communication.

— Cheryl Robinson, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2026
No moral panic is more unoriginal than the fear that contemporary men are no longer as manly as the heroes who preceded them.

— Elizabeth Dray, STAT, 21 July 2026

Definition of unoriginal

Adjective

Trotting out this try-hard trifecta of confusing, uninspired installments in a year that’s seen so many entertaining, thought-provoking additions to the horror genre?

— Jen Chaney, Vulture, 26 Sep. 2026
That tedium could result in companies pushing uninspired and buggy products.

— Victor Tangermann, Futurism, 23 Sep. 2026

Definition of uninspired

Adjective

Using techniques like input-dependent computation and gating, the liquid AI design gives us substantially greater power to access the human-like cognition, albeit imitative, of the machines.

— John Werner, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2026
Since then, whenever new tools to crank out communications have become available, somebody has flooded the zone with the fastest, most imitative material that could garner attention.

— Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 8 Nov. 2025

Definition of imitative

Adjective

This summer, McCurdy told a committee of Georgia lawmakers that such derivative products have a high potential for abuse and are causing deaths in his state.

— Anjeanette Damon, ProPublica, 1 Sep. 2026
The best solution, their letter said, would be to avoid imposing tariffs on semiconductors and derivative products entirely.

— Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 27 Aug. 2026

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