unexciting

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adjective

Not exciting.

Opposite
UncommonScrabble 20

Meanings

adjectiveunexciting (comparative more unexciting, superlative most unexciting)

comparative more unexciting · superlative most unexciting

  1. 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 274
    1 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

adjectivenot stimulating

adjectivenot exciting

Opposite

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*né
  2. Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
  3. Proto-Germanic*un-
  4. Proto-West Germanic*un-
  5. Old Englishun-
  6. Middle Englishun-
  7. Englishun-
  8. Englishexciting
  9. Englishunexciting

From un- + exciting.

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APA

unexciting. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unexciting

MLA

“unexciting.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unexciting. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unexciting,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unexciting.

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