Antonyms of adj uninteresting

2 senses of uninteresting

Sense 1
uninteresting (vs. interesting) -- (arousing no interest or attention or curiosity or excitement; "a very uninteresting account of her trip")

interesting (vs. uninteresting) -- (arousing or holding the attention)
        => absorbing, engrossing, fascinating, gripping, riveting -- (capable of arousing and holding the attention; "a fascinating story")
        => entertaining -- (agreeably diverting; "an entertaining puppet show"; "films should be entertaining")
        => amusing, amusive, diverting -- (providing enjoyment; pleasantly entertaining; "an amusing speaker"; "a diverting story")
        => intriguing -- (capable of arousing interest or curiosity; "our team came up with some most intriguing finds")
        => newsworthy -- (sufficiently interesting to be reported in a newspaper)

Sense 2
uninteresting -- (characteristic or suggestive of an institution especially in being uniform or dull or unimaginative; "institutional food")

INDIRECT (VIA institutional) -> noninstitutional -- (not institutional)

Similarity of adj uninteresting

2 senses of uninteresting

Sense 1
uninteresting (vs. interesting) -- (arousing no interest or attention or curiosity or excitement; "a very uninteresting account of her trip")
       => boring, deadening, dull, ho-hum, irksome, slow, tedious, tiresome, wearisome -- (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")
       => insipid, jejune -- (lacking interest or significance or impact; "an insipid personality"; "jejune novel")
       => narcotic, soporiferous, soporific -- (inducing mental lethargy; "a narcotic speech")
       => pedestrian, prosaic, prosy, earthbound -- (lacking wit or imagination; "a pedestrian movie plot")
       => ponderous -- (labored and dull; "a ponderous speech")
       => putdownable -- ((of a book) poorly written and not entertaining)
          Also See-> unexciting#2; unstimulating#1, unexciting#1

Sense 2
uninteresting -- (characteristic or suggestive of an institution especially in being uniform or dull or unimaginative; "institutional food")
       => institutional (vs. noninstitutional) -- (organized as or forming an institution; "institutional religion")

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