uninventive

1. 1.

   deficient in originality or creativity; lacking powers of invention

   “a sterile ideology lacking in originality”

   “unimaginative development of a musical theme”

   “uninspired writing”

   Synonymssterileunimaginativeuninspired

   Similaruncreative

Questions about uninventive

What does uninventive mean?

uninventive means "deficient in originality or creativity; lacking powers of invention".

How many syllables are in uninventive?

uninventive has 4 syllables: u-nin-ven-tive. The stress falls on "nin".

What is another word for uninventive?

Close synonyms include sterile, unimaginative, uninspired. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is uninventive a common word?

uninventive is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.