Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Not overtly impressive; unremarkable; nondescript.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not prepossessing; not attractive or engaging; unpleasing: as, a person of unprepossessing appearance.
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- adjective
unimpressive orunremarkable ;dull andordinary ;nondescript .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective creating an unfavorable or neutral first impression
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Examples
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And certain unprepossessing countries in even less prepossessing regions — Venezuela, Costa Rica, Russia, South Africa, and Tanzania — are acquiring brave, plucky innovators.
Mapping Innovation P. J. O'Rourke 2007
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And certain unprepossessing countries in even less prepossessing regions — Venezuela, Costa Rica, Russia, South Africa, and Tanzania — are acquiring brave, plucky innovators.
Mapping Innovation P. J. O'Rourke 2007
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'unprepossessing' by the media and with Britain's Got Talent judge Amanda Holden announcing on talkSPORT that 'We think she looks a bit like Eddie Large, poor woman', Susan Boyle booked herself in for an eyebrow shape, haircut and colour, and then went on a modest shopping spree.
Home | Mail Online 2009
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Returning to his own unprepossessing patch of auto show real estate — five cars parked on a stretch of carpet — Zhou assessed the surrounding opulence: Those beautiful vehicles are for the very handsome men, those high in society.
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Baggy, shapeless, colorless, they were as unprepossessing as a shroud.
Raziel Kristine Douglas 2011
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Here he spent several lonely and depressing months, eminently disgusted with the unprepossessing appearance of the Indian maidens, and greatly worried by his growing sons who stood in need of a mother's care.
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"He was a rather unprepossessing character as a young man," said Thamer.
Germany's first Hitler exhibition opens in nervous Berlin museum Kate Connolly in Berlin 2010
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To my inexperienced eye they appeared more unprepossessing than ever.
CHAPTER IX 2010
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The first two are adorably cute, saucer-eyed pups, the third a rather straggly and unprepossessing mongrel.
The Hard Sell: Thinkbox.tv Pete Cashmore 2010
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It's immediately recognisable as a Shane Meadows picture both through the harsh, handheld, in-your-face aesthetic, indebted to the realism of Ken Loach and Mike Leigh, and the now familiar, unprepossessing mug of Meadows himself.
Britain's best film directors show some early promise Philip French 2010
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