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not new,original, orclever; notshowinganyimagination 缺乏想象力的;无创意的SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrasesPlain and ordinary - as it comesidiom
- austere
- austerely
- austerity
- average Joe
- generalized
- homeliness
- homely
- homespun
- homey
- rife
- run-of-the-mill
- severe
- severely
- simple
- unoriginal
- unostentatiously
- unremarkable
- well trodden
- workaday
See more results » (Definition ofunimaginativefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)Examplesofunimaginativeunimaginative Introspective andunimaginative, the sun king's two successors did nothing to arrest this process.From theCambridge English Corpus His challenges are problematic and inconsistent and his objections are, please pardon the pun,unimaginative.From theCambridge English Corpus Although the organizers let it be presented, they found it disappointinglyunimaginativeand simplistic.From theCambridge English Corpus They shared an opposition to whig moralism and erastianism, to radicalism, to the materialism of a commercial society, and tounimaginativeimperial bureaucracy.From theCambridge English Corpus On the whole, the work reveals the hand of a competent, if somewhatunimaginative, composer.From theCambridge English Corpus However, the organisation and presentation of this evidence isunimaginativeand, more important, unconvincing.From theCambridge English Corpus The unidentified conspirator is able to go about his business unremarked, and any alias that he adopts, howeverunimaginative, is likely to withstand scrutiny.From theCambridge English Corpus Such an approach can have its uses even if it seemsunimaginative.From theCambridge English Corpus Urban records generally, and civic custumals in particular, are often dismissed as purely prosaic andunimaginativetexts.From theCambridge English Corpus High scorers on this scale tend to be wise, patient, creative, and forgetful, whereas low scorers are frequently characterized as impatient,unimaginative, and self-conscious.From theCambridge English Corpus In this connection, recall my earlier discussion of the hard cases where imaginative andunimaginativejudges are embroiled in controversies over the correct way of dealing with statutor y language.From theCambridge English Corpus Malmesbury's policy of strict neutrality wasunimaginativeand was borne out of entirely negative considerations.From theCambridge English Corpus On both occasions it was theunimaginativeand politically ambitious members in the party's youth wing who organised lumpen youth (thugs) to do the dirty work.From theCambridge English Corpus By facilitating the task of creating sound events of great richness, digital technology satisfies the needs of the mostunimaginativecomposer, who generates insignificant sound effects.From theCambridge English Corpus Short-sighted andunimaginative, too ready to retreat from the broad social democratic vision to protect their own fiefdoms, union leaders receive a great deal of criticism.From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. #https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/unimaginative## |