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I've personally reached the point where the sound of MP3s are so uncompelling, because so much is lost in translation.
Beck

Meaning of "uncompelling" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF UNCOMPELLING

uncompelling  [ˌʌnkəmˈpɛlɪŋ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF UNCOMPELLING

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Uncompelling is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES UNCOMPELLING MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of uncompelling in the English dictionary

The definition of uncompelling in the dictionary is not arousing interest or demanding attention, not gripping. Other definition of uncompelling is not compelling or persuasive, unconvincing.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH UNCOMPELLING


bestselling
ˌbɛstˈsɛlɪŋ
celling
ˈsɛlɪŋ
compelling
kəmˈpɛlɪŋ
dwelling
ˈdwɛlɪŋ
evil-smelling
ˈiːv əlsmɛlɪŋ
fast-selling
ˈfɑːstˌsɛlɪŋ
Felling
ˈfɛlɪŋ
fortune-telling
ˈfɔːtʃuːntɛlɪŋ
foul-smelling
ˌfaʊlˈsmɛlɪŋ
mis-selling
ˌmɪsˈsɛlɪŋ
misspelling
ˌmɪsˈspɛlɪŋ
propelling
prəˈpɛlɪŋ
retelling
ˌriːˈtɛlɪŋ
selling
ˈsɛlɪŋ
shelling
ˈʃɛlɪŋ
spelling
ˈspɛlɪŋ
swelling
ˈswɛlɪŋ
telling
ˈtɛlɪŋ
welling
ˈwɛlɪŋ
yelling
ˈjɛlɪŋ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE UNCOMPELLING

uncompacted
uncompanied
uncompanionable
uncompanioned
uncompassionate
uncompelled
uncompensated
uncompetitive
uncomplacent
uncomplaining
uncomplainingly
uncomplaisant
uncomplaisantly
uncompleted
uncompliant
uncomplicated
uncomplimentary
uncomplying
uncomposable
uncompounded

WORDS THAT END LIKE UNCOMPELLING

billing
calling
chilling
controlling
direct selling
drilling
falling
feeling
filling
fulfilling
hot-selling
installing
killing
modelling
polling
rolling
scrolling
shilling
start the ball rolling
travelling
willing

Synonyms and antonyms of uncompelling in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «uncompelling» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF UNCOMPELLING

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The translations of uncompelling from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «uncompelling» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

uncompelling
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

uncompelling
570 millions of speakers

English

uncompelling
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

uncompelling
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

غير مقنع
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

uncompelling
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

uncompelling
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

uncompelling
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

uncompelling
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tidak bercantum
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

uncompelling
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

uncompelling
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

uncompelling
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Uncompelling
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

uncompelling
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

uncompelling
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अयोग्य
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

uncompelling
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

uncompelling
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

uncompelling
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

uncompelling
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

uncompelling
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

uncompelling
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

uncompelling
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

uncompelling
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

uncompelling
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of uncompelling

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «UNCOMPELLING»

The term «uncompelling» is used very little and occupies the 171.909 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «UNCOMPELLING» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about uncompelling

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QUOTES WITH «UNCOMPELLING»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word uncompelling.
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Beck
I've personally reached the point where the sound of MP3s are so uncompelling, because so much is lost in translation.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «UNCOMPELLING»

Discover the use of uncompelling in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to uncompelling and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Christian Faith and the Problem of Evil
But the POP is uncompelling. Under this supposition, then, it would appear that if the atheist wants to use the LPOE to disprove the existence of God, he must show either that the POP, despite all appearances to the contrary, actually works, ...
Peter Van Inwagen, 2004
2
Strategies of Argument: Essays in Ancient Ethics, ...
uncomPellIng. catalePtIc. ImPressIons. With this caveat in mind, we can now turn to the question at issue: do cataleptic impressions compel our assent? I will argue in three stages that they don't: first, I will set out the central evidence for my  ...
Mi-Kyoung Lee, 2014
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New York Magazine
uncompelling. choreography. is. tedious. angst. Brahms. /Handel,. by. Tharp. and. Robbins,. is. full. of. energy. . ." Tharp, is the New York City Ballet's first excursion with Tharp. Like her initial works for the JofFrey and American Ballet Theatre, ...
4
CSO
That is the real challenge for CSOs right now: Their message is so totally uncompelling. Given the world we live in today, how can that be? Exactly! How can security be uncompelling in a world that is screaming for it? These [CSO] guys ...
5
Self-Fulfillment
It is this point about attainability that makes the famous “myth of Sisyphus”43 at once so dramatic and, in large part, so uncompelling. It is dramatic because it gives a brilliant exemplification of the idea that human life is ultimately meaningless ...
Alan Gewirth, 2009
6
Ethics after Anscombe: Post `Modern Moral Philosophy'
... I should say, is images of a vastly more uncompelling sort. Comically uncompelling, as we can see when similar arguments are used in Tristram Shandy to defend the rights of homunculi. To some this will sound very weak, and the very idea ...
‎2000
7
The Marginalization of Poetry: Language Writing and Literary ...
The problem is that often / it doesn't work; the devices employed / create poems that seem phony / or boring or / uncompelling. .../... simplistic / notions of absorption through unity, [are] / . . . sometimes put forward by Ginsberg / (who as his work ...
Bob Perelman, 1996
8
Animal Rights : Current Debates and New Directions: Current ...
... to re- spect the rights of animals, Martians, and whatnot, in fact what they are providing, I should say, is images of a vastly more uncompelling sort. Comically uncompelling, as we can see when similar arguments are used in Tristram ...
Cass R. Sunstein Karl N. Llewellyn Distinguished Service Professor of Jurisprudence, Martha C. Nussbaum Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics both at the University of Chicago, 2004
9
Futures of Reproduction: Bioethics and Biopolitics
While promising in their shift of focus to the relational aspect of ethics, both these approaches are ultimately uncompelling and I discuss each in turn here. The first of these is Michael Sandel's communitarian critique of the drive to genetic ...
Catherine Mills, 2011
10
Presuppositions and Discourse: Essays Offered to Hans Kamp
Instead, I shall propose a different way of drawing the line between intuitively compelling and uncompelling transitive arguments. My proposal does not rest on the idea that counterfactuals are strict conditionals, of contextually determinate ...
Rainer Bäuerle, U. Reyle, Thomas Ede Zimmermann, 2010

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «UNCOMPELLING»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term uncompelling is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Deutsche Bank On United Technologies: 'Hope Isn't A Strategy …
Therefore, the analyst believes that the underlying earnings potential for 2016/2017 are "uncompelling." According to the Deutsche Bank report, "Headwinds into ... «Benzinga, Jul 15»
2
Deutsche Bank Downgrades United Technologies (UTX) to Hold
Moving to Hold on guidance cut & uncompelling '16/17' potential," Walton added. For an analyst ratings summary and ratings history on United Technologies ... «StreetInsider.com, Jul 15»
3
Religious freedom and the uncompelling case for 'biblical marriage'
The recent Supreme Court decision to legalize same-sex marriage has been widely celebrated by so-called liberals as well as gays. It is also getting push-back ... «News & Observer, Jul 15»
4
Why the Supreme Court Will Take Marriage Equality Nationwide
After attending the oral arguments and poring over the transcripts, I can confidently identify the most compelling iteration of an uncompelling argument: “It has to ... «Slate Magazine, Jun 15»
5
The Mets have become a team with no identity -- Can Michael …
... this year, remember? -- as a team without a clear identity. On many nights, they are an uncompelling collection of replacement-level players and substitutes. «New York Daily News, Jun 15»
6
Web Site Not Performing? Maybe it's Page Bloat
If you're not making enough money, the causes could be any number of things, like uncompelling content, network latency or a slow database, but it could also ... «ADT Magazine, Jun 15»
7
Review: Jade Colbert looks at new books by Michel Basilières …
The novel unfortunately gets mired in tedium: an uncompelling story of unrequited horniness with tacked-on futurism bogged down by the physics of time travel. «The Globe and Mail, May 15»
8
Clem Bastow: Escape From LA
This is the tale of Clem Bastow's two years spent in Los Angeles, trying and failing to make it as a scriptwriter. But judging from this confused, uncompelling yarn, ... «Chortle, Apr 15»
9
Death Grips Share 'On GP' Video From Their Final Album
True to Death Grips style the video for the 7-minute plus song is home-made and cryptic featuring a rather uncompelling musician. the powers that b is Death ... «Music Feeds, Mar 15»
10
The Mission: THE COLOR BARRIER - The Uncompelling
Many details have surfaced since the official announcement, in regards to rights and release dates and the frequency and cinematic ground zero points for ... «Comic Book Resources, Feb 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Uncompelling [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/uncompelling>. May 2024 ».
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