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Unimaginative

adjective

Deficient in originality or creativity; lacking powers of invention. Synonyms: sterile, uninspired, uninventive. "Unimaginative development of a musical theme" , "Uninspired writing"

Dealing only with concrete facts.

Lacking spontaneity or originality or individuality. Synonyms: stereotyped, stereotypic, stereotypical. "Even his profanity was unimaginative"

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"Unimaginative" Quotes from Famous Books

... which my mind had suggested while I was standing at his door repeated themselves with double force. Tell this man, this unimaginative, hard-headed, raw-boned, sandy-haired North countryman,—tell this man a story which the most credulous school-girl would have rejected as a ...

— A Strange Story, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

... closely knit community. Everyone who had seen it agreed that his house was the most attractive one of all, for, although it was only a standard prefab, he had used taste and ingenuity to make it a little different from the other unimaginative homes. ...

— The Venus Trap • Evelyn E. Smith

... knew that the campaign had taken a definite turn in our favour, but none of us expected the Boche to be so harried and battered that by November he would be suing for peace. And I am stating bald unimaginative facts if I say that one of the main aspirations among officers and men was to continue the advance in such a way as to make sure of decent quarters o' nights, and to drive the Germans so hard that when winter set in we should be clear of the foul mud tracts and the rat-infested ...

— Pushed and the Return Push • George Herbert Fosdike Nichols, (AKA Quex)

... uneasiness that this coincidence awakened in Mulrady's unimaginative mind, he was almost on the point of disclosing his good fortune to the driver, in order to prove how preposterous was the parallel, but checked ...

— A Millionaire of Rough-and-Ready • Bret Harte

... paradox of human life, often observed even by the most concrete and unimaginative of philosophers, that man seems to be poised between two contradictory orders of Reality. Two planes of existence—or, perhaps, two ways of apprehending existence—lie within the possible span of his consciousness. That great pair of opposites which ...

— Practical Mysticism - A Little Book for Normal People • Evelyn Underhill

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