imaginativeapproving

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Plain and ordinary
as it comesidiom
austere
austerely
austerity
average Joe
homespun
homey
humble
humdrum
middle-of-the-road
something/nothing to shout aboutidiom
sparely
spartan
stale
starkly
unostentatious
unostentatiously
unpainted
unremarkable
unremarkably

Examples of unimaginative

unimaginative
Introspective and unimaginative, the sun king's two successors did nothing to arrest this process.
His challenges are problematic and inconsistent and his objections are, please pardon the pun, unimaginative.
Although the organizers let it be presented, they found it disappointingly unimaginative and simplistic.
They shared an opposition to whig moralism and erastianism, to radicalism, to the materialism of a commercial society, and to unimaginative imperial bureaucracy.
On the whole, the work reveals the hand of a competent, if somewhat unimaginative, composer.
However, the organisation and presentation of this evidence is unimaginative and, more important, unconvincing.
The unidentified conspirator is able to go about his business unremarked, and any alias that he adopts, however unimaginative, is likely to withstand scrutiny.
Such an approach can have its uses even if it seems unimaginative.
Urban records generally, and civic custumals in particular, are often dismissed as purely prosaic and unimaginative texts.
High scorers on this scale tend to be wise, patient, creative, and forgetful, whereas low scorers are frequently characterized as impatient, unimaginative, and self-conscious.
In this connection, recall my earlier discussion of the hard cases where imaginative and unimaginative judges are embroiled in controversies over the correct way of dealing with statutor y language.
Malmesbury's policy of strict neutrality was unimaginative and was borne out of entirely negative considerations.
On both occasions it was the unimaginative and politically ambitious members in the party's youth wing who organised lumpen youth (thugs) to do the dirty work.
By facilitating the task of creating sound events of great richness, digital technology satisfies the needs of the most unimaginative composer, who generates insignificant sound effects.
Short-sighted and unimaginative, too ready to retreat from the broad social democratic vision to protect their own fiefdoms, union leaders receive a great deal of criticism.
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