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un·in·spired

(ŭn′ĭn-spīrd′)

adj.

1. Characterized by a lack of excitement or liveliness; unexciting or uninteresting: a team playing uninspired baseball. See Synonyms at dull.

2. Lacking or done without inspiration or enthusiasm: a competent but uninspired student.

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uninspired

(ˌʌnɪnˈspaɪəd)

adj

dull or ordinary; unimaginative: an uninspired painting.

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un•in•spired

(ˌʌn ɪnˈspaɪ^ərd)

adj.

not inspired; not creative or spirited: an uninspired performance.

[1680–90]

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Adj.	1.	uninspired - having no intellectual or emotional or spiritual excitement; "the production was professional but uninspired" unexciting - not exciting; "an unexciting novel"; "lived an unexciting life"
	2.	uninspired - deficient in originality or creativity; lacking powers of invention; "a sterile ideology lacking in originality"; "unimaginative development of a musical theme"; "uninspired writing" unimaginative, uninventive, sterile uncreative - not creative; "an uncreative imagination"

uninspired

adjective unexciting, banal, unimaginative, stock, ordinary, dull, indifferent, commonplace, vanilla (informal), stale, prosaic, uninspiring, humdrum, uninteresting, unoriginal The script was singularly uninspired.
original, exciting, imaginative, interesting, different, brilliant, inspired, outstanding

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uninspired

adjective

1. Lacking liveliness, charm, or surprise:

arid, aseptic, colorless, drab, dry, dull, earthbound, flat, flavorless, lackluster, lifeless, lusterless, matter-of-fact, pedestrian, prosaic, spiritless, sterile, stodgy, unimaginative.

2. Lacking originality:

sterile, uncreative, unimaginative, uninventive, unoriginal.

Translations

uninspired

[ˈʌnɪnˈspaɪəd] ADJ [person] → poco inspirado, sin inspiración; [book, film, performance] → sin inspiración, falto de inspiración; [food] → poco original

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

uninspired

[ˌʌnɪnˈspaɪə^rd] adj [person] → en mal d'inspiration; [book, script, food] → sans inspiration
to be uninspired → manquer d'inspiration
The script was singularly uninspired → Le scénario manquait singulièrement d'inspiration.

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

uninspired

adj teacher, performance → fantasielos, phantasielos, ideenlos, einfallslos; lecture, book → einfallslos; food → fantasielos, phantasielos, einfallslos; to be uninspired by a subject → von einem Thema nicht begeistert werden

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

uninspired

[ˌʌnɪnˈspaɪəd] adj (poem, performance) → privo/a d'ispirazione, piatto/a
he was uninspired by the essay topic → l'argomento del tema non l'ha ispirato

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

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"And yet in reason it should clearly be the other way; it should be five hundred times as easy to fore- tell the last as the first, for, indeed, it is so close by that one uninspired might almost see it.

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