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uninventive
adjective as in sterile
Weak matches
- antiseptic
- arid
- aseptic
- bare
- barren
- bleak
- dead
- decontaminated
- desert
- desolate
- disinfected
- dry
- effete
- empty
- fallow
- fruitless
- futile
- gaunt
- germ-free
- hygienic
- impotent
- infecund
- infertile
- pasteurized
- sanitary
- septic
- sterilized
- uncreative
- unfruitful
- unimaginative
- uninfected
- uninspired
- unoriginal
- unprofitable
- unprolific
- vain
- waste
- without issue
Example Sentences
But where “Inventing Anna” insists on fidelity to real life, it’s annoying, such as in Garner’s uninventive portrayal of Anna.
It’s another to be mired in its often uninventive delivery and fall victim to its patterned complacency.
On initial encounter, they seem to be boxy, uninventive riffs on old-style Minimalist abstraction.
These days, you could still file most of my clothes under “eclectic”, but I’m much more careful, uninventive even.
It’s also satisfying, if uninventive, to discover enemies can be disabled in proportion to whatever body part has been shot off — though in the end, the ineluctable efficacy of headshots makes this largely moot.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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