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Fear of death has never played a large part in my consciousness - perhaps unimaginative of me.
A. N. Wilson

Meaning of "unimaginative" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF UNIMAGINATIVE

unimaginative  [ˌʌnɪˈmædʒɪnətɪv] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF UNIMAGINATIVE

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

WHAT DOES UNIMAGINATIVE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

There are known knowns

"There are known knowns" is a phrase from a response United States Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld gave to a question at a US Department of Defense News Briefing in February 2002 about the lack of evidence linking the government of Iraq with the supply of weapons of mass destruction to terrorist groups. Rumsfeld stated: Reports that say there's -- that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things that we know that we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns, the ones we don't know we don't know. The statement became the subject of much commentary and derision.

Definition of unimaginative in the English dictionary

The definition of unimaginative in the dictionary is lacking in imagination or imaginative thought; dull.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH UNIMAGINATIVE


agglutinative
əˈɡluːtɪnətɪv
carminative
ˈkɑːmɪnətɪv
coordinative
kəʊˈɔːdɪnətɪv
denominative
dɪˈnɒmɪnətɪv
determinative
dɪˈtɜːmɪnətɪv
discriminative
dɪˈskrɪmɪnətɪv
dominative
ˈdɒmɪnətɪv
eliminative
ɪˈlɪmɪnətɪv
fascinative
ˈfæsɪnətɪv
germinative
ˈdʒɜːmɪnətɪv
illuminative
ɪˈluːmɪnətɪv
imaginative
ɪˈmædʒɪnətɪv
nominative
ˈnɒmɪnətɪv
originative
əˈrɪdʒɪnətɪv
overimaginative
ˌəʊvərɪˈmædʒɪnətɪv
predestinative
priːˈdɛstɪnətɪv
recriminative
rɪˈkrɪmɪnətɪv
ruminative
ˈruːmɪnətɪv
terminative
ˈtɜːmɪnətɪv
urinative
ˈjʊərɪnətɪv

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE UNIMAGINATIVE

unimaginable
unimaginably
unimaginatively
unimaginativeness
unimagined
Unimak Island
unimbued
unimmortal
unimmunised
unimmunized
unimolecular
unimpaired
unimparted
unimpassioned
unimpeachability
unimpeachable
unimpeachableness
unimpeachably
unimpeached
unimpeded

WORDS THAT END LIKE UNIMAGINATIVE

active
administrative
alternative
collaborative
comparative
conservative
cooperative
creative
decorative
derivative
in the negative
informative
initiative
innovative
legislative
narrative
native
negative
quantitative
relative
representative

Synonyms and antonyms of unimaginative in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «UNIMAGINATIVE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «unimaginative» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of unimaginative

Translation of «unimaginative» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF UNIMAGINATIVE

Find out the translation of unimaginative to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of unimaginative from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «unimaginative» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

缺乏想象力
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

sin imaginación
570 millions of speakers

English

unimaginative
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

ख़याल से बाहर
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الخيال
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

лишенный воображения
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

sem imaginação
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

কল্পনাশক্তিরহিত
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

imagination
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tidak imajinatif
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

einfallslos
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

想像力のない
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

상상력
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Unimaginative
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

không giàu óc tưởng tượng
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கற்பனை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

न समजण्याजोगा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

yaratıcı olmayan
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

privo di fantasia
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

wyobraźni
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

позбавлений уяви
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

lipsit de imaginație
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

φαντασία
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

verbeeldingloos
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

unimaginative
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

fantasiløs
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of unimaginative

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «UNIMAGINATIVE»

The term «unimaginative» is regularly used and occupies the 85.086 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «UNIMAGINATIVE» OVER TIME

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

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4 QUOTES WITH «UNIMAGINATIVE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word unimaginative.
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Franklin Pierce Adams
Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute.
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Marjorie Scardino
The politics of Europe is unimaginative and bureaucratic.
3
Mary Wesley
Unimaginative people are spared quite a lot. They're often much happier, because they don't go through all the variety of conceptions of the person they love.
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A. N. Wilson
Fear of death has never played a large part in my consciousness - perhaps unimaginative of me.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «UNIMAGINATIVE»

Discover the use of unimaginative in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to unimaginative and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Corpus Approaches to Evaluation: Phraseology and Evaluative ...
Some typical examples from the BoE (Examples 7.8 and 7.9) support this: Example 7.8 Haig . . . therefore proves himself to have been unimaginative, indifferent, ob- stinate and incompetent . . . Example 7.9 The Warana parade was poorly ...
Susan Hunston, 2011
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The Educated Mind: How Cognitive Tools Shape Our Understanding
They had six counselors, five of whom were pompous and unimaginative, and one of whom was humble but ingenious. (We have, then, our binary structure: unimaginative/ingenious. These are chosen because they are familiar to children , ...
Kieran Egan, 1997
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The Critical Imagination
Sixth, we can explain the difference between what is imaginative, what is unimaginative, and what is merely not imaginative. Something can fail to be imaginative without being unimaginative. The imaginative and the unimaginative are ...
James Grant, 2013
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Things to be remembered in daily life
Our. Unimaginative. Age. 239. bo to contradict flatly the ordinary opinion of the world. Notwithstanding, if one will but look at one's private experience among tho most ordinary and obscure actors in the life-drama, how wonderfully, ono must ...
John Timbs, 1863
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Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management: Third ...
Table 1 showstheentryof 'unimaginative'inSentiWN. The first columnin- dicates the word's POS tagger,“a” represents adjective.The numbers under “synset-offset ”indicate the word'sposition in the dictionary. The third and Table 1. SentiWN: ...
Dimitris Karagiannis, Zhi Jin, 2009
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Morality, Self Knowledge, and Human Suffering: An Essay on ...
We may first think of a certain unimaginative dancer. There are many ways in which a dancer may be rather unimaginative, but I will focus on a particular manner of being dull and unimaginative that is closely connected to the way the Kantian ...
Josep Corbí, 2012
7
Christianity and the Mass Media in America: Toward a ...
Unimaginative. Social. Liturgy. Washington Journalism Review editor Ruth Ravenel tells the story of Dick Dabney's attempt in 1980 to write a piece for Harper's magazine about Rev. M. G. “Pat” Robertson's 700 Club religious television ...
Quentin J. Schultze, 2005
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Innovations in Play Therapy
... related to abused children. They identified two recurring play themes or recurrent patterns of play that are identified with abused children. These two play patterns are (a) unimaginative and literal play and (b) repetitive and compulsive play.
Garry L. Landreth, 2013
9
USSR: From an Original Idea by Karl Marx
Unimaginative. things. to. do. (1). OPERA,. BALLET,. FOLKLORE. CONCERT. Though an unashamed boor and Andrew Lloyd Webber connoisseur back home in England, in the USSR you will doubtless insist on a visit to the opera or ballet.
Russell Taylor, Marc Polonsky, 2011
10
Words: A User's Guide
As an adjective, it means uninspired, ordinary: Too often the curriculum is narrow and pedestrian rather than promoting the full development of individuals. unimaginative adjective, means lacking in thought, dull: Deafworkers find their careers ...
Graham Pointon, Stewart Clark, 2014

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «UNIMAGINATIVE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term unimaginative is used in the context of the following news items.
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Unimaginative Revisions of Key Moments in US Race Relations
Again, the unimaginative role reversal, and the African-American's naked, muscular body hearkens back to odious fictions about the hyper-sexualized ... «Hyperallergic, Jun 15»
2
Kids' menus don't have to stick to bland, unhealthy, unimaginative
Don't let this 4-year-old's sophisticated pour of ranch dressing over his organic salad at Lalla Grill fool you. In 3 minutes, he'll escape from the table. «Monterey County Weekly, Jun 15»
3
Schüller: Merging parishes is an unimaginative way to handle the …
In an interview published May 26 in Austrian daily Salzburger Nachrichten, Fr. Helmut Schüller spoke about a disconnect between bishops and the people of the ... «National Catholic Reporter, Jun 15»
4
Carly Fiorina Calls The Chinese Unimaginative Idea Thieves
GOP presidential contender Carly Fiorina tells a reporter in a video that surfaced Tuesday that Americans shouldn't fear competition with China because its ... «Huffington Post, May 15»
5
Wolf-whistling isn't wrong, it's unimaginative
Defenders of wolf-whistlers insist that they are simply paying a compliment to the young women who pass below their scaffolding. If that is the case, it's a pretty ... «Telegraph.co.uk, May 15»
6
Stevenson's Unimaginative Offense Will Be Telling Vs. Kovalev
We saw him box for 12 consecutive rounds against an opponent whose best weapons were his willingness to engage along with his awkwardness. We saw him ... «The Sweet Science, Apr 15»
7
Restaurant review: Bungalow - tasty lamb, unimaginative desserts
The Bungalow. Shop 2, The Centrium, 60 Wyndham Street, Central. Tel: 2623 7868. Open: Monday and Tuesday noon-10.30pm (last orders), Wednesday to ... «South China Morning Post, Mar 15»
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Samsung's New Smartphone Strategy Is So Unimaginative It Just …
Instead, analysts have found Samsung's strategy lacking. However, more recently a faint outline of Samsung's plans have emerged ... and it's so unimaginative it ... «Motley Fool, Feb 15»
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Camera Angling: How Unimaginative TV Networks Fail SOTU Viewers
... certain words come readily to mind: Words like “pedestrian,” “boring,” “unimaginative,” “uninformative,” “lazy,” “timid,” “inept,” “misleading,” and even “biased. «New York Observer, Jan 15»
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Lopez's 'Boy' an unimaginative plunge into paranoia
Lopez's 'Boy' an unimaginative plunge into paranoia. Facebook. 0 · Twitter. 200 · Google+ · LinkedIn. 200. Email; Print; Comments. 0. hello. Article to: (required) «Chicago Daily Herald, Jan 15»

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