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UK
/ˌʌnɪnvˈaɪtɪŋ/
]
[ US /ˌənɪnˈvaɪtɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˌənɪnˈvaɪtɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- neither attractive nor tempting
- not tempting
How To Use uninviting In A Sentence
- I guess it must be nearly impossible to transcend the uninviting, unappealing, unnerving stigma of hospitals - regardless of good or bad design.
- This really does look uninviting after dark, and is used by many more people, whilst this additional lighting would benefit both the school and the leisure centre entrances.
- The story transpires in rural Georgia, and Green pulls the audience into this uninviting setting from the first frame.
- The stalls are now too close together and the canopies too wide, making the passages between stalls narrow, uninviting, claustrophobic and sunless.
- Like many critics of Federation Square, this guy emphasised the harshness, angularity and general uninvitingness of the development.
- And, by the way; Chiapas is not a place with beautiful beaches but has a huge, uninviting and undeveloped coastal region of dismal black sand and turbid Pacific coastal waters interspersed with poverty stricken and impossibly hot and humid villages existing in utmost poverty. Plan Puebla-Panama. Yay or Nay?
- But because they're often paved, bricked, or tiled, they have a tendency to look cold and uninviting.
- The block is "uninviting", "treeless", shadowy; the buzzer is broken; the sounds of gunfire echo in the night; a "black doberman the size of a wolf" prowls nearby. The Guardian World News
- True, even now, a few narrow valleys, or wadies, show signs of great fertility, but the greater part is quite uninviting. My Three Days in Gilead
- He faced the uninviting prospect of a two-hour wait for the next train.