Unimaginative
Crossword Clue and Answers
Today we have 93 crossword solutions for Unimaginative which appeared recently in The Guardian Speedy.
We have deemed Unimaginative as a UNCOMMON crossword clue as we have not seen it regularly in many crossword publications.
The most recent answer we found for this clue is "STICKINTHEMUD".
Publications
- The Guardian Speedy - Sunday, 23 Apr 2017
- The Guardian Speedy - Sunday, 6 Nov 2016
Crossword Answers
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DRY
A reformer who opposes the use of intoxicating beverages
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SLOW
(of business) not active or brisk; "business is dull (or slow)"; "a sluggish market"
ARID
Lacking sufficient water or rainfall; "an arid climate"; "a waterless well"; "miles of waterless country to cross"
PURE
(of color) being chromatically pure; not diluted with white or grey or black
FLAT
A suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house
LEAN
The property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the vertical; "the tower had a pronounced tilt"; "the ship developed a list to starboard"; "he walked with a heavy inclination to the right"
OPEN
Information that has become public; "all the reports were out in the open"; "the facts had been brought to the surface"
NEAT
Very good; "he did a bully job"; "a neat sports car"; "had a great time at the party"; "you look simply smashing"
BALD
Grow bald; lose hair on one's head; "He is balding already"
BARE
Lacking embellishment or ornamentation; "a plain hair style"; "unembellished white walls"; "functional architecture featuring stark unornamented concrete"
DULL
Make less lively or vigorous; "Middle age dulled her appetite for travel"
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TIRED
Depleted of strength or energy; "tired mothers with crying babies"; "too tired to eat"
USUAL
Occurring or encountered or experienced or observed frequently or in accordance with regular practice or procedure; "grew the usual vegetables"; "the usual summer heat"; "came at the usual time"; "the child's usual bedtime"
VAPID
Lacking significance or liveliness or spirit or zest; "a vapid conversation"; "a vapid smile"; "a bunch of vapid schoolgirls"
STARK
Completely; "stark mad"; "mouth stark open"
STAID
Characterized by dignity and propriety
SOBER
Dignified and somber in manner or character and committed to keeping promises; "a grave God-fearing man"; "a quiet sedate nature"; "as sober as a judge"; "a solemn promise"; "the judge was solemn as he pronounced sentence"
SPARE
A score in tenpins; knocking down all ten after rolling two balls
PROSE
Matter of fact, commonplace, or dull expression
PROSY
Lacking wit or imagination; "a pedestrian movie plot"
SMALL
The slender part of the back
PLAIN
Express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness; "My mother complains all day"; "She has a lot to kick about"
TRITE
Repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse; "bromidic sermons"; "his remarks were trite and commonplace"; "hackneyed phrases"; "a stock answer"; "repeating threadbare jokes"; "parroting some timeworn axiom"; "the trite metaphor `hard as nails'"
BANAL
Repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse; "bromidic sermons"; "his remarks were trite and commonplace"; "hackneyed phrases"; "a stock answer"; "repeating threadbare jokes"; "parroting some timeworn axiom"; "the trite metaphor `hard as nails'"
FRANK
A member of the ancient Germanic peoples who spread from the Rhine into the Roman Empire in the 4th century
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STUFFY
Affected with a sensation of stoppage or obstruction; "a stuffy feeling in my chest"
STUPID
In a state of mental numbness especially as resulting from shock; "he had a dazed expression on his face"; "lay semiconscious, stunned (or stupefied) by the blow"; "was stupid from fatigue"
MATTER
That which has mass and occupies space; "physicists study both the nature of matter and the forces which govern it"
SEVERE
Causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm; "a dangerous operation"; "a grave situation"; "a grave illness"; "grievous bodily harm"; "a serious wound"; "a serious turn of events"; "a severe case of pneumonia"; "a life-threatening disease"
SIMPLE
A person lacking intelligence or common sense
SQUARE
Any artifact having a shape similar to a plane geometric figure with four equal sides and four right angles; "a checkerboard has 64 squares"
STOLID
Having or revealing little emotion or sensibility; not easily aroused or excited; "her impassive remoteness"; "he remained impassive, showing neither interest in nor concern for our plight"- Nordhoff & Hall; "a silent stolid creature who took it all as a matter of course"-Virginia Woolf; "her face showed nothing but stolid indifference"
HOMELY
Plain and unpretentious; "homely truths"; "letters to his son full of homely advice"; "homely fare"
LITTLE
(of children and animals) young, immature; "what a big little boy you are"; "small children"
RUSTIC
An unsophisticated country person
STODGY
(used pejoratively) out of fashion; old fashioned; "moss-grown ideas about family life"
CANDID
Characterized by directness in manner or speech; without subtlety or evasion; "blunt talking and straight shooting"; "a blunt New England farmer"; "I gave them my candid opinion"; "forthright criticism"; "a forthright approach to the problem"; "tell me what you think--and you may just as well be frank"; "it is possible to be outspoken without being rude"; "plainspoken and to the point"; "a point-blank accusation"
COMMON
A piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area; "they went for a walk in the park"
DIRECT
Put an address on (an envelope)
BARREN
Providing no shelter or sustenance; "bare rocky hills"; "barren lands"; "the bleak treeless regions of the high Andes"; "the desolate surface of the moon"; "a stark landscape"
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ROUTINE
An unvarying or habitual method or procedure
SPARTAN
A resident of Sparta
MUNDANE
Concerned with the world or worldly matters; "mundane affairs"; "he developed an immense terrestrial practicality"
NATURAL
(craps) a first roll of 7 or 11 that immediately wins the stake
HUMDRUM
The quality of wearisome constancy, routine, and lack of variety; "he had never grown accustomed to the monotony of his work"; "he was sick of the humdrum of his fellow prisoners"; "he hated the sameness of the food the college served"
INSIPID
Lacking interest or significance or impact; "an insipid personality"; "jejune novel"
AUSTERE
Of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor; forbidding in aspect; "an austere expression"; "a stern face"
PROSAIC
Lacking wit or imagination; "a pedestrian movie plot"
STERILE
Incapable of reproducing; "an infertile couple"
LITERAL
A mistake in printed matter resulting from mechanical failures of some kind
ASCETIC
Someone who practices self denial as a spiritual discipline
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TIRESOME
So lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness; "a boring evening with uninteresting people"; "the deadening effect of some routine tasks"; "a dull play"; "his competent but dull performance"; "a ho-hum speaker who couldn't capture their attention"; "what an irksome task the writing of long letters is"- Edmund Burke; "tedious days on the train"; "the tiresome chirping of a cricket"- Mark Twain; "other people's dreams are dreadfully wearisome"
ORDINARY
An early bicycle with a very large front wheel and small back wheel
MEDIOCRE
Moderate to inferior in quality; "they improved the quality from mediocre to above average"
EVERYDAY
Found in the ordinary course of events; "a placid everyday scene"; "it was a routine day"; "there's nothing quite like a real...train conductor to add color to a quotidian commute"- Anita Diamant
HOMESPUN
Of textiles; having a rough surface; "a sweater knitted of nubbly homespun yarns"
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UNADORNED
Not decorated with something to increase its beauty or distinction
INFERTILE
Incapable of reproducing; "an infertile couple"
COLORLESS
Lacking in variety and interest; "a colorless and unimaginative person"; "a colorless description of the parade"
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UNROMANTIC
Neither expressive of nor exciting sexual love or romance
UNORIGINAL
Not original; not being or productive of something fresh and unusual; "the manuscript contained unoriginal emendations"; "his life had been unoriginal, conforming completely to the given pattern"- Gwethalyn Graham
UNAFFECTED
Undergoing no change when acted upon; "entirely unaffected by each other's writings"; "fibers remained apparently unaffected by the treatment"
EARTHBOUND
Lacking wit or imagination; "a pedestrian movie plot"
PEDESTRIAN
Lacking wit or imagination; "a pedestrian movie plot"
UNINSPIRED
Deficient in originality or creativity; lacking powers of invention; "a sterile ideology lacking in originality"; "unimaginative development of a musical theme"; "uninspired writing"
LACKLUSTRE
Lacking luster or shine; "staring with lackluster eyes"; "lusterless hair"
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UNINVENTIVE
Deficient in originality or creativity; lacking powers of invention; "a sterile ideology lacking in originality"; "unimaginative development of a musical theme"; "uninspired writing"
STEREOTYPED
Lacking spontaneity or originality or individuality; "stereotyped phrases of condolence"; "even his profanity was unimaginative"
STEREOTYPIC
Lacking spontaneity or originality or individuality; "stereotyped phrases of condolence"; "even his profanity was unimaginative"
UNVARNISHED
Not having a coating of stain or varnish
PLAINSPOKEN
Characterized by directness in manner or speech; without subtlety or evasion; "blunt talking and straight shooting"; "a blunt New England farmer"; "I gave them my candid opinion"; "forthright criticism"; "a forthright approach to the problem"; "tell me what you think--and you may just as well be frank"; "it is possible to be outspoken without being rude"; "plainspoken and to the point"; "a point-blank accusation"
NEARSIGHTED
Unable to see distant objects clearly
COMMONPLACE
A trite or obvious remark
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SHORTSIGHTED
Lacking foresight or scope; "a short view of the problem"; "shortsighted policies"; "shortsighted critics derided the plan"; "myopic thinking"
MATTEROFFACT
A matter that is an actual fact or is demonstrable as a fact
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STEREOTYPICAL
Lacking spontaneity or originality or individuality; "stereotyped phrases of condolence"; "even his profanity was unimaginative"
STICKINTHEMUD
UNIMPASSIONED
Free from emotional appeal; marked by reasonableness; "answered with an unimpassioned defense"; "the unimpassioned intellect"
UNIMAGINATIVE
Lacking spontaneity or originality or individuality; "stereotyped phrases of condolence"; "even his profanity was unimaginative"
UNEMBELLISHED
Lacking embellishment or ornamentation; "a plain hair style"; "unembellished white walls"; "functional architecture featuring stark unornamented concrete"
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STRAIGHTFORWARD
Pointed directly ahead; "a straightforward gaze"