unimpressive

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Recent Examples of unimpressive The Passport’s fuel economy is unimpressive, but there’s plenty to like about Honda’s first foray off road. Mark Phelan, USA Today, 7 Apr. 2025 Her concern over both the animals and the big picture, not to mention her frustration and anger over what legacies of long-grift greed have wrought, offers the tiniest beacon of feeling in a film preoccupied with teeing up some frankly unimpressive carnage. David Fear, Rolling Stone, 28 Mar. 2025 Brazil stuttered in subsequent friendlies, were deeply unimpressive at the Copa America and have only shown fleeting signs of improvement since. Jack Lang, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025 Fast but legal cruising down the autoroute was also unimpressive, slashing range by over 60%. Neil Winton, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for unimpressive
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unimpressive
Adjective
  • Like you, or, sorry, like the woman in the book, the ordinary feels so uninspiring, so monotonous.
    Susan Choi, Literary Hub, 5 June 2025
  • Of course, most teams would welcome the position the Padres find themselves in: still possessing baseball’s fifth-best record despite weeks of largely uninspiring offense.
    Dennis Lin, New York Times, 19 May 2025
Adjective
  • The scientist Hartnett was an unemotional witness called to speak to her professional analysis of the items she was tasked with looking at.
    Flint McColgan, Boston Herald, 15 May 2025
  • As the film opens, a matter-of-fact, unemotional voice shares statistics about children living with poverty, parental abuse and alcoholism in the United States, as the numbers flash in simple white text on a black screen.
    Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 30 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • The humble statement was met with loud protests from all of his onstage colleagues, as well as Armisen.
    Jillian Sederholm, EW.com, 4 June 2025
  • The humble bathroom scale has long been overdue to learn some new tricks.
    Christopher Null, Wired News, 4 June 2025
Adjective
  • The artist himself, however, was rather more unprepossessing.
    Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 5 Jan. 2023
  • The bishop has an amiable, unprepossessing manner, with a slight stoop and a twinkly smile.
    Nathaniel Rich Stacy Kranitz, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2022
Adjective
  • Given its clever production and Stoltenberg’s consciously dispassionate vocals, Big City Life could easily come across as forbiddingly cool.
    Liam Hess, Vogue, 24 May 2025
  • Since mainstream media coverage of Trump is so often negative, indeed the adversarial relationship is now established, more dispassionate evaluation becomes highly desirable.
    Arthur I. Cyr, Chicago Tribune, 20 May 2025
Adjective
  • Or perhaps two intense training sessions weekly with perfect recovery outperforms five mediocre workouts.
    Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 28 May 2025
  • So, except for 2019, every full season since 2017 has included one mediocre month.
    Peter O’Malley, Los Angeles Times, 23 May 2025
Adjective
  • Instead, we've been left with emotionless exchanges that consist of emojis, gifs and short-form abbreviations that replace full sentences and conversational courtesies.
    Dontaira Terrell, Refinery29, 27 Mar. 2025
  • This game is tied – thanks to those emotionless robot umps.
    Jayson Stark, The Athletic, 24 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • His tombstone was flat and modest; people had left bouquets and stones.
    Paige Williams, New Yorker, 2 June 2025
  • My social media agency started with modest goals that seemed sensible for a new entrepreneur.
    Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 2 June 2025

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“Unimpressive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unimpressive. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.

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