Unimaginative

Definition: Unimaginative

Unimaginative

Adjective

1. Deficient in originality or creativity; lacking powers of invention:i "a sterile ideology lacking in originality"; "unimaginative development of a musical theme"; "uninspired writing".

2. Dealing only with concrete facts.

3. Lacking spontaneity or originality or individuality; "stereotyped phrases of condolence"; "even his profanity was unimaginative".

Date "unimaginative" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1762. (references)

Synonyms: Unimaginative

Synonyms: stereotyped (adj), stereotypic (adj), stereotypical (adj), sterile (adj), uninspired (adj), uninventive (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Dullness	Adjective: dull, dull as ditch water; unentertaining, uninteresting, flat, dry as dust; unfunny, unlively, logy; unimaginative; insulse; dry as dust; prosy, prosing, prosaic; matter of fact, commonplace, pedestrian, pointless; "weary stale flat and unprofitable".
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Unimaginative

English words defined with "unimaginative": colorless, colourless, conventional ♦ matter-of-fact ♦ prosaic, Prosaical ♦ stodgy, stuffy ♦ Unideal, uninteresting. (references)

Domain

Usage

Screenplays

In short, she is unprincipled, relentless, and exacting; idle, unproductive, and tedious; unimaginative, humorless, and vain; vindictive, undignified, and weak. (The Divorce of Lady X; writing credit: Gilbert Wakefield; Lajos Bir�)

How unimaginative! (The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne; writing credit: Javier Olivares; Pablo Olivares)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Music	Unimaginative (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Author	Quotation
John Ruskin	An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Unimaginative" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unimaginative" is used about 119 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	119	29,501

Language		Translations for "unimaginative"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		pa fantazi (matter of fact, pedestrian). (various references)

Bulgarian		със слабо въображение, лишен от въображение (unideaed), без въображение (literal, purblind), прозаичен (literal, matter of fact, pedestrian, prosaic, prose, prosy, unromantic, workaday). (various references)

Czech		prozaický (down to earth, everyday, prosaic, prosy), nepředstavitelný (inconceivable, undreamed of, undreamt of, unimaginable), nenápaditý (uninspired). (various references)

Finnish		mielikuvitukseton. (various references)

German		einfallslos (unadventurous, unadventurously, uninspired). (various references)

Greek		πεζόσ (afloot, infantryman, pedestrian, prosaic, prosaical, prosy). (various references)

Hebrew		חסר מעוף (shortsighted). (various references)

Hungarian		fantáziátlan (button-down). (various references)

Indonesian		tanpa fantasi. (various references)

Italian		senza immagginazione. (various references)

Manx		gyn sheiltynys. (various references)

Pig Latin		imaginativeunay

Portuguese		sem imaginação (stick-in-the-mud), prosaico (literal, matter-of-fact, pedestrian, prosaic, prosy, workaday), desprovido de imaginação. (various references)

Romanian		prozaic (bread and butter, commonplace, matter of fact, pedestrian, prosaic, prosaically, prosily, prosy, unpoetical, workaday), fãrã imaginaţie, banal (banal, cheap, commonplace, daily, dusty, everyday, hackneyed, humdrum, indifferent, indistinctive, insipid, mediocre, puerile, small, threadbare, trite, trivial). (various references)

Russian		лишенный воображения. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		stvaran (actual, objective, real, substantial, unfeigned, veritable), realan (practical, real), neimagirnaran. (various references)

Spanish		no imaginativo. (various references)

Swedish		idefattig, fantasilös. (various references)

Turkish		yaratıcı olmayan, hayal gücü olmayan. (various references)

Ukrainian		прозаїчний (earthly, pedestrian, prosaic, prosy). (various references)

Vietnamese		tính không sáng tạo (unimaginativeness), không gi� u óc tưởng tượng thiếu sáng kiến. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "unimaginative": unimaginatively. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Unimaginative" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: unimaginatvie. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "unimaginative" (pronounced unuma"ji'nutiv)
5	-n u t i v	alternative, cognitive, definitive, imaginative, infinitive, punitive.
4	-u t i v	accusative, acquisitive, additive, affirmative, alliterative, anticompetitive, argumentative, causative, commemorative, communicative, comparative, competitive, consecutive, conservative, consultative, contemplative, cumulative, curative, decorative, degenerative, demonstrative, derivative, diminutive, dispositive, duplicative, evocative, executive, expletive, exploitative, Federative, figurative, fixative, formative, fugitive, generative, hypersensitive, illustrative, imperative, indicative, informative, initiative, inoperative, inquisitive, insensitive, interpretive, intuitive, laxative, lucrative, narrative, negative, neoconservative, noncompetitive, noncumulative, nonexecutive, normative, nutritive, operative, palliative, participative, pejorative, positive, prerogative, preservative, preventative, primitive, prohibitive, provocative, putative, recuperative, relative, remunerative, rep, repetitive, representative, restorative, secretive, sedative, sensitive, speculative, superlative, talkative, tentative, ultraconservative, uncompetitive, uncooperative, uninformative, unrepresentative, vituperative.
3	-t i v	abortive, accommodative, accumulative, active, adaptive, addictive, adjective, administrative, adoptive, affective, appointive, appreciative, assaultive, assertive, attentive, attractive, authoritative, automotive, captive, collaborative, collective, combative, conductive, congestive, connective, constructive, contraceptive, cooperative, corrective, corruptive, counterproductive, creative, deceptive, defective, deliberative, descriptive, destructive, detective, digestive, dilutive, directive, disincentive, disparages, disruptive, dissipative, distinctive, distributive, effective, elective, elucidative, eruptive, exhaustive, exploitive, facultative, festive, furtive, hyperactive, imitative, inactive, inattentive, incentive, ineffective, infective, injunctive, innovative, instinctive, instructive, interactive, introspective, invective, inventive, investigative, irrespective, iterative, legislative, locomotive, manipulative, meditative, motive, native, nonautomotive, nonnative, nonproductive, objective, obstructive, octave, overactive, perceptive, perspective, photoconductive, plaintive, predictive, preemptive, presumptive, preventive, proactive, probative, productive, prognosticative, projective, prospective, protective, qualitative, quantitative, radioactive, reactive, receptive, reconstructive, redemptive, redistributive, reflective, refractive, regulative, rehabilitative, reproductive, respective, restive, restrictive, retroactive, retrospective, seductive, selective, stimulative, subjective, substantive, suggestive, superconductive, supportive, unattractive, unproductive, unreceptive, vegetative, vindictive.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-e-g-i-i-i-m-n-n-t-u-v"
	-2 letters: imaginative.
	-3 letters: invaginate.
	-4 letters: animating, emanating, inanimate, manganite.
	-5 letters: agminate, amanitin, aviating, enigmata, iguanian, inviting, maintain, minutiae, minuting, mutining, navigate, tegumina, umangite, vaginate, vaunting, vitamine.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-e-g-i-i-i-m-n-n-t-u-v"
	+2 letters: unimaginatively.
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