Meanings
comparative more uninteresting · superlative most uninteresting
- Arousing little or no interest; boring or uneventful.
To many, a railway ticket is but an uninteresting bit of pasteboard, which must be purchased before a journey is undertaken, and once obtained, may be stowed away in a convenient pocket and forgotten, until a watchful railway official requests its production.
1939 November, R. S. Tayler, “A Railway Journey”, in Railway Magazine, page 336Synonyms: noninteresting, characterless, soggy
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveArousing little or no interest; boring or uneventful.
More synonyms by meaning
adjectivearousing no interest or attention or curiosity or excitement
adjectivecharacteristic or suggestive of an institution especially in being uniform or dull or unimaginative
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-
- Englishinterest
- Englishinteresting
- Englishuninteresting
From un- + interesting.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Czech nezajímavý
- nezajímavýarousing little or no interest; boring or uneventful
Dutch oninteressant
- oninteressantarousing little or no interest; boring or uneventful
Esperanto seninteresa
- seninteresaarousing little or no interest; boring or uneventful
Finnish tylsä, ikävystyttävä
- tylsäarousing little or no interest; boring or uneventful
- ikävystyttäväarousing little or no interest; boring or uneventful
French inintéressant
- inintéressantarousing little or no interest; boring or uneventful
German uninteressant
- uninteressantarousing little or no interest; boring or uneventful
Greek αδιάφορος
- αδιάφορος (adiáforos)arousing little or no interest; boring or uneventful
Hungarian érdektelen, unalmas
- érdektelenarousing little or no interest; boring or uneventful
- unalmasarousing little or no interest; boring or uneventful
- nem érdekesarousing little or no interest; boring or uneventful
Irish neamhshuimiúil, neamhspéisiúil
- neamhshuimiúilarousing little or no interest; boring or uneventful
- neamhspéisiúilarousing little or no interest; boring or uneventful
- leamharousing little or no interest; boring or uneventful
Italian poco interessante
- poco interessantearousing little or no interest; boring or uneventful
Māori mākihakiha
- mākihakihaarousing little or no interest; boring or uneventful
Polish nieciekawy
- nieciekawyarousing little or no interest; boring or uneventful
Romanian neinteresant
- neinteresantarousing little or no interest; boring or uneventful
Russian неинтере́сный
- неинтере́сный (neinterésnyj)arousing little or no interest; boring or uneventful
Spanish poco interesante, sin interés
- poco interesantearousing little or no interest; boring or uneventful
- sin interésarousing little or no interest; boring or uneventful
- ininteresantearousing little or no interest; boring or uneventful
Cite this entry
uninteresting. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/uninteresting
“uninteresting.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/uninteresting. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “uninteresting,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/uninteresting.
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