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How to use unimaginative in a sentence

12 example sentences · adjective

Unimaginative means not imaginative. Example: “For the first ten years of nationalisation a further note of overall gloom was added by the depressing policy of unimaginative Regional colour schemes, indifferently applied.”

Examples of unimaginative by meaning

adjectiveNot imaginative.

  • For the first ten years of nationalisation a further note of overall gloom was added by the depressing policy of unimaginative Regional colour schemes, indifferently applied.1962 October, Brian Haresnape, “Focus on B.R. passenger stations”, in Modern Railways, page 251
  • Lighting was unimaginative for the standard stock with naked tungsten filament bulbs and metal reflectors.1979 August, Graham Burtenshaw, Michael S. Welch, “O.V.S. Bulleid's SR loco-hauled coaches - 1”, in Railway World, page 398
  • His views were echoed by The Economist, which feared that the effects of modernisation would be no more than "chromium-plated" inefficiency caused by unimaginative railway management and adverse union reaction.2023 March 8, David Clough, “The long road that led to Beeching”, in RAIL, number 978, page 43

More sentences with unimaginative

  • Bath salts seemed ordinary, a record or book-token impersonal, a pot-plant unimaginative.2015, Margaret Yorke, No Fury, →ISBN. From the entry book-token
  • It was all a bit unimaginative, so I rearranged everything at a jaunty angle.2004, Clare Sudbery, The dying of delight. From the entry tetris
  • He’d rather have a slightly hotdoggy good pilot than an unimaginative tyro, in case of trouble.1997, Dewey Gram, Dante’s Peak, New York, N.Y.: Boulevard Books, →ISBN, page 96. From the entry hotdoggy
  • "And you, sir, have lived an unimaginative obstructionist and never can hope now to emerge from it."1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC. From the entry obstructionist
  • "Ah!" sighed the unimaginative Granby, and his honest, rugged face grew clouded.1908, Rafael Sabatini, The Abduction. From the entry rugged
  • Teachout has a gift for slicing through the bafflegab and revealing that the grifter's patter disguises nothing more than unimaginative, sociopathic scams.2020 July 29, Cory Doctorow, “Break 'Em Up”, in Pluralistic, retrieved 02 Aug 2020. From the entry bafflegab
  • Both mothers thought these names sadly unimaginative and each blamed the child of the other for the lack of vision and style.1996, Maeve Binchy, This Year It Will Be Different: A Christmas Treasury, Hachette UK, published 2008, →ISBN. From the entry mary
  • Biocky, unimaginative, and the pukey colour scheme has you searching out those Blues Brothers sun-glasses you bought on holiday last year, just before they went out of fashion.1992 March, Ian Osborne, “Skull and Crossbones”, in Phil King, editor, Zzap!64, Ludlow, Shropshire: Europress Impact Ltd, →ISSN, →OCLC…. From the entry pukey
  • His views were echoed by The Economist, which feared that the effects of modernisation would be no more than “chromium-plated” inefficiency caused by unimaginative railway management and adverse union reaction.2023 March 8, David Clough, “The long road that led to Beeching”, in RAIL, number 978, page 43. From the entry echo

Meaning of unimaginative

  1. adjective Not imaginative.

Full definition of unimaginative

Questions about unimaginative in a sentence

How do you use unimaginative in a sentence?
Unimaginative is used as an adjective. For example: “For the first ten years of nationalisation a further note of overall gloom was added by the depressing policy of unimaginative Regional colour schemes, indifferently applied.”
What is a short sentence with unimaginative?
“"Ah!" sighed the unimaginative Granby, and his honest, rugged face grew clouded.”
What does unimaginative mean?
Unimaginative means not imaginative.

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