uninane

Adjective

uninane (comparative more uninane, superlative most uninane)

1. (rare) Not inane.
   • It was what I used to imagine when I was ten that a party here ought to be like. It was extremely gorgeous and uninane, as the band and trampling made talk impossible.c. 1935, Elizabeth Bowen, [Description of the 1935 hunt ball at Bowen’s Court]; quoted in Patricia Craig, edited by Emma Tennant, Elizabeth Bowen (Lives of Modern Women), Penguin Books, 1986, page 75
   • In fact, it had rather more to do with the four-day strain of Florida, with the wholly uninane exigencies of arranging for the burial of one parent and the survival of the other, that had put the household name and the Hallelujah Chorus behind him.1981, The Atlantic, page 39, column 2