Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not inventive; not having the power of inventing, finding, discovering, or contriving.

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  • adjective Not inventive, nor creative.

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  • adjective deficient in originality or creativity; lacking powers of invention

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Examples

  • You might use any number of words to describe Michael Caputo, the Roger Stone-connected consultant who is working with Buffalo businessman Carl Paladino on his gubernatorial campaign, but "uninventive" isn't one of them.

    NY Daily News 2010

  • What it is about those well-worn, "uninventive" titles?

    Kotaku 2008

  • What it is about those well-worn, "uninventive" titles?

    Kotaku 2008

  • What it is about those well-worn, "uninventive" titles?

    Kotaku 2008

  • I think a great calalamity provides a ready-made plot for the uninventive, so there will always be an oversupply of "ripped from the headlines" books.

    February Notes Roger Sutton 2009

  • Our lovers are children of nature, natural and uninventive-Duty and moral responsibility are less to them than passion.

    The Kempton-Wace Letters 2010

  • That he envisioned them having the same comfortable, uninventive sex they always had, but this time they would be in small motels off major highways, far from his responsibilities to his family, far from the inhibitions that a decade in New York and girls like her hadn't cured.

    Until the Heart Stops Beating Khaliah Williams 2011

  • That he envisioned them having the same comfortable, uninventive sex they always had, but this time they would be in small motels off major highways, far from his responsibilities to his family, far from the inhibitions that a decade in New York and girls like her hadn't cured.

    Until the Heart Stops Beating Khaliah Williams 2011

  • Like Kidnapped, Bedeviled, by Kim Ki Duk protégé Jang Cheol-so, is uninventive in terms of plot, a straight up female revenge movie in the vein of the recently remade I Spit On Your Grave.

    Farihah Zaman: 2010 Fantastic Fest #3: All Creatures Great and Small; Zombies, Vampires, and Terrible Human Beings Farihah Zaman 2010

  • That's the moment when the movie's plot starts devolving into a string of random notions, two of which involve villains (one really good bad guy would have done the trick) and their remarkably uninventive villainy.

    'Iron Man 2': Rust Never Sleeps 2010

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