unelating

comparative more unelating · superlative most unelating

1. Not inspiring elation.

   It was certainly unelating as an architectural composition; but then we know, by the story, that the plain pear is often the most luscious.

   1906, Bernard Capes, A Rogue's Tragedy, page 117

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   But there is something unthrilling, unelating, passionless about Black and Blue: a good many commendable details, a great deal of savoir-faire (it comes to us from Paris, after all), but not much heart.

   1989, New York, volume 22, page 8