UNINTERESTING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does uninteresting mean? 

• UNINTERESTING (adjective)
  The adjective UNINTERESTING has 2 senses:

1. arousing no interest or attention or curiosity or excitement

2. characteristic or suggestive of an institution especially in being uniform or dull or unimaginative

  Familiarity information: UNINTERESTING used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNINTERESTING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Arousing no interest or attention or curiosity or excitement

Context example:

a very uninteresting account of her trip

Similar:

boring; deadening; dull; ho-hum; irksome; slow; tedious; tiresome; wearisome (so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness)

insipid; jejune (lacking interest or significance or impact)

narcotic; soporiferous; soporific (inducing mental lethargy)

earthbound; pedestrian; prosaic; prosy (lacking wit or imagination)

ponderous (labored and dull)

putdownable ((of a book) poorly written and not entertaining)

Also:

unexciting (not exciting)

unexciting; unstimulating (not stimulating)

Attribute:

interest; interestingness (the power of attracting or holding one's attention (because it is unusual or exciting etc.))

Antonym:

interesting (arousing or holding the attention)

Derivation:

uninterestingness (inability to capture or hold one's interest)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Characteristic or suggestive of an institution especially in being uniform or dull or unimaginative

Context example:

institutional food

Similar:

institutional (organized as or forming an institution)

Derivation:

uninterestingness (inability to capture or hold one's interest)

 Context examples 

But busy, uninteresting, joyous faces brought back despair to my heart.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

But the morning paper was uninteresting.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Everything is so insipid, so uninteresting, that does not relate to the beloved object!

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

"What a haughty, uninteresting creature that oldest Miss March is!" was the unfortunately audible remark of one of the ladies, as the door closed upon their guests.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

“From the point of view of the criminal expert,” said Mr. Sherlock Holmes, “London has become a singularly uninteresting city since the death of the late lamented Professor Moriarty.”

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She speedily comprehended all his merits; the persuasion of his regard for Elinor perhaps assisted her penetration; but she really felt assured of his worth: and even that quietness of manner, which militated against all her established ideas of what a young man's address ought to be, was no longer uninteresting when she knew his heart to be warm and his temper affectionate.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

The asteroid’s reflectance spectrum — the specific pattern of wavelengths of light reflected from an object — was different to that of similar small Kuiper Belt Objects (KBOs), which typically have uninteresting, featureless spectra that reveal little information about their composition.

(Exiled Asteroid Discovered in Outer Reaches of Solar System, ESO)

It was uninteresting sewing, but tonight no one grumbled.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Save for the occasional use of cocaine, he had no vices, and he only turned to the drug as a protest against the monotony of existence when cases were scanty and the papers uninteresting.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The 'haughty, uninteresting creature' was let severely alone, but Amy's talent and taste were duly complimented by the offer of the art table, and she exerted herself to prepare and secure appropriate and valuable contributions to it.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)