Meanings
comparative more unexciting · superlative most unexciting
- Not exciting.
Plain and unexciting, perhaps, but they are solid, well cooked, appetising and filling, and moreover cheap.
1964 April, “Letters: London stations—a consumers' guide”, in Modern Railways, page 2741 more example
B. Wooster: Of all the places on this great planet of ours, West Neck, Long Island, has chosen to be the most unexciting. The last time anything remotely interesting happened here was in 1842, when a tree fell over. They still talk about it in the village.
1992 April 5, “The Full House”, in Jeeves and Wooster, Series 3, Episode 2
Synonyms & antonyms
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*né
- Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
- Proto-Germanic*un-
- Proto-West Germanic*un-
- Old Englishun-
- Middle Englishun-
- Englishun-
- Englishexciting
- Englishunexciting
Cite this entry
unexciting. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unexciting
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