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Uninventive

adjective
1.
Deficient in originality or creativity; lacking powers of invention.  Synonyms: sterile, unimaginative, uninspired.  "Unimaginative development of a musical theme" , "Uninspired writing"






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"Uninventive" Quotes from Famous Books



... rest of his work, the substratum was pre-Shaksperean. For it is clear that the figure of Falstaff, as Oldcastle, had been popularly successful before Shakspere took hold of it:[149] and what he did here, as elsewhere, with his uninventive mind, in which the faculty of imagination always rectified and expanded rather than originated types and actions, was doubtless to give the hues and tones of perfect life to the half-real inventions of others. This must always be insisted on as the special psychological characteristic ...
— Montaigne and Shakspere • John M. Robertson



Words linked to "Uninventive" :   unimaginative, uncreative



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