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单词 unattractive
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Definition of unattractive in English:

unattractive

adjectiveʌnəˈtraktɪvˌənəˈtræktɪv
  • 1Not pleasing or appealing to look at.

    an unattractive deep red brick
    the silence was broken by a strange and unattractive sound
    she believed she was unattractive and overweight
    he was an extremely unattractive man with no sex appeal
    Example sentencesExamples
    • I pressed the ‘Door open’ button and a not unattractive older woman bounded in between me and my prize trolley.
    • I could claim to be a model (admittedly only to people that have never seen how hideously unattractive I am).
    • He said that the new plant would be added to the existing canning complex and would be built on an unattractive piece of land in the site, known by workers as the old coal tip.
    • She sees he has sweat over his face, oddly unattractive.
    • On the flip side though: Who wants to see overweight or unattractive women on television, in the papers or in advertisements?
    • While the one on the left had the other stewardesses were chugging down and dancing, it was the one on the right that was favoured by our unattractive hostess.
    • They sound fuzzy and unattractive; their songs simply aren't memorable.
    • As long as she keeps her shoes and glasses on and shaves off her body hair on a regular basis, Isserley manages to pass as a not entirely unattractive human female.
    • Most of us find them unattractive, though there are thousands of rodent fanciers who dote on their well-groomed rat-pets.
    • She again hinted that while the site may remain, knocking down the rather unattractive buildings and starting afresh was a real option.
    • Since you broke up she's embarked on a downward spiral of dating increasingly unattractive men and it all makes for quite desperate reading.
    • With its high skin to juice ratio, Mavro has a tendency to give pale, unattractive colours when vinified as a red wine.
    • Upon hearing me blatantly making fun of her, she turned an unattractive shade of red.
    • It was a most unattractive sound, and I had to speak to him quite sharply about it.
    • His face had a few cuts, but a deep, unattractive cut right across his cheek.
    • He turned to stare at Liora surrounded by a group of unpleasant and unattractive girls.
    • The stunning singer admits she is shocked that men lust after her now she has grown up because she was overweight and unattractive as a teenager..
    • The admiration he felt for the unattractive girl was so deep inside of him that he had kissed her only once.
    • If they are ugly, if they are unattractive, if they are too harsh for people to take on, they're not newsworthy.
    • Time after time I had withstood complete turmoil within me, constantly asking myself why I was so ugly and unattractive.
    Synonyms
    ill-favoured, hideous, plain, plain-featured, plain-looking, unlovely, unprepossessing, unsightly, displeasing, disagreeable
    1. 1.1 Having no inviting or beneficial features.
      if the revised bid is unattractive, it may not be accepted
      Example sentencesExamples
      • He suggests that the minority of people who voted for this unattractive party are not constituents of the sitting Member of Parliament.
      • In this culture, a career option as ‘modern matron’ becomes unattractive.
      • This multiplication of entities is certainly seen by many physicists to be an unattractive feature of the theory.
      • This is because medicine has become unattractive to men professionally, financially, socially and academically.
      • But Dublin also had a number of unattractive features that had the potential to turn away investors.
      • It has found out, sometimes the hard way, that these are the people with the unattractive task of running the party at local level and who deliver votes.
      • Dunfermline is taking money with a twinkle in its eye, paying a not unattractive 6.75% on the top band.
      • On the face of it, the simplicity of the concept may sound unattractive, but flesh in some details and the picture changes significantly.
      • The new analysis is a sound way to test an unattractive idea.
      • It seemed like an unattractive proposition for audiences and ultimately box office sales.
      • Long distance coaches are unattractive in the US, partly because of their high exposure to fuel and inflationary wage costs.
      • They say the world demand for aggregates has halved since the inquiry, making the development economically unattractive.
      • This makes them an extremely unattractive economic proposition for even the most destitute ragpicker.
      • Analysts said that the bank could not perform well compared to other banks because of all the unattractive red tape.
      • The plans do not include water chutes, however, since they are seen as being outdated and unattractive to today's leisure users.
      • The unattractive feature of this approach is that it will sometimes involve punishing the blameless.
      • Some senior lawyers believe the courts are making marriage an unattractive prospect to financially ambitious men.
      • The maturity profile of the bonds may be an unattractive feature for many investors.
      • Indeed, for the cause of action to arise only when the lender realises his security would be a highly unattractive proposition.
      • And I wonder why religion has always been such an unattractive proposition to me.
      Synonyms
      plain, ugly, plain-looking, ugly-looking, plain-featured, ill-favoured, unappealing, unsightly, unlovely, unprepossessing, displeasing
      hideous, monstrous, grotesque, deformed, disfigured
      North American homely
      informal not much to look at, short on looks, as plain as a pikestaff, as ugly as sin, fugly
      British informal no oil painting
      Australian/New Zealand informal drack
      New Zealand informal huckery

Derivatives

  • unattractively

  • adverbˌʌnəˈtraktɪvliˌənəˈtræktɪvli
    • The Orangery restaurant is not as gorgeous as the rest of the house, partly because it is in a modern extension, but mainly because it is unattractively lit.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The project would bring back to vibrant life 300 acres of brownfield land at the unattractively named Pithouse West site, which neighbours the borough's award-winning Rother Valley Country Park.
      • It grows to about 60 cm high, and is best raised annually from seed or cuttings as it soon starts to straggle and look unattractively untidy.
      • Unfortunately, she is also quite unattractively photographed at times and needs to have a stern word with the cameraman.
      • But an hour and a half of loser superheroes gimping around in unattractively tight costumes is certainly transfixing even if it isn't entertainment.
  • unattractiveness

  • nounˌʌnəˈtraktɪvnəsˌənəˈtræktɪvnəs
    • Thus, the benefits of mass appeal and electioneering competence are minimized, and so are the penalties of unattractiveness and incompetence.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Each started her career riffing on the fact that her brand of unattractiveness made people uncomfortable.
      • It is even possible that something akin to racism could evolve one day, as those who are financially challenged will be branded as such by their unattractiveness.
      • Guess we're all confined to unattractiveness and those dreadful 1950s thick rimmed spectacles that according to stereotype all academically sound people wear.
      • But the unattractiveness of casting the net of responsibility as widely as this is far outweighed by the unattractiveness of the alternative outcome.
 
 

Definition of unattractive in US English:

unattractive

adjectiveˌənəˈtræktɪvˌənəˈtraktiv
  • 1Not pleasing or appealing to look at.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Since you broke up she's embarked on a downward spiral of dating increasingly unattractive men and it all makes for quite desperate reading.
    • While the one on the left had the other stewardesses were chugging down and dancing, it was the one on the right that was favoured by our unattractive hostess.
    • On the flip side though: Who wants to see overweight or unattractive women on television, in the papers or in advertisements?
    • He said that the new plant would be added to the existing canning complex and would be built on an unattractive piece of land in the site, known by workers as the old coal tip.
    • If they are ugly, if they are unattractive, if they are too harsh for people to take on, they're not newsworthy.
    • I pressed the ‘Door open’ button and a not unattractive older woman bounded in between me and my prize trolley.
    • His face had a few cuts, but a deep, unattractive cut right across his cheek.
    • Time after time I had withstood complete turmoil within me, constantly asking myself why I was so ugly and unattractive.
    • With its high skin to juice ratio, Mavro has a tendency to give pale, unattractive colours when vinified as a red wine.
    • She again hinted that while the site may remain, knocking down the rather unattractive buildings and starting afresh was a real option.
    • Upon hearing me blatantly making fun of her, she turned an unattractive shade of red.
    • The admiration he felt for the unattractive girl was so deep inside of him that he had kissed her only once.
    • As long as she keeps her shoes and glasses on and shaves off her body hair on a regular basis, Isserley manages to pass as a not entirely unattractive human female.
    • I could claim to be a model (admittedly only to people that have never seen how hideously unattractive I am).
    • He turned to stare at Liora surrounded by a group of unpleasant and unattractive girls.
    • The stunning singer admits she is shocked that men lust after her now she has grown up because she was overweight and unattractive as a teenager..
    • Most of us find them unattractive, though there are thousands of rodent fanciers who dote on their well-groomed rat-pets.
    • She sees he has sweat over his face, oddly unattractive.
    • They sound fuzzy and unattractive; their songs simply aren't memorable.
    • It was a most unattractive sound, and I had to speak to him quite sharply about it.
    Synonyms
    ill-favoured, hideous, plain, plain-featured, plain-looking, unlovely, unprepossessing, unsightly, displeasing, disagreeable
    1. 1.1 Having no inviting or beneficial features.
      if the revised bid is unattractive, it may not be accepted
      Example sentencesExamples
      • In this culture, a career option as ‘modern matron’ becomes unattractive.
      • On the face of it, the simplicity of the concept may sound unattractive, but flesh in some details and the picture changes significantly.
      • The new analysis is a sound way to test an unattractive idea.
      • The unattractive feature of this approach is that it will sometimes involve punishing the blameless.
      • Some senior lawyers believe the courts are making marriage an unattractive prospect to financially ambitious men.
      • It has found out, sometimes the hard way, that these are the people with the unattractive task of running the party at local level and who deliver votes.
      • He suggests that the minority of people who voted for this unattractive party are not constituents of the sitting Member of Parliament.
      • They say the world demand for aggregates has halved since the inquiry, making the development economically unattractive.
      • The maturity profile of the bonds may be an unattractive feature for many investors.
      • Long distance coaches are unattractive in the US, partly because of their high exposure to fuel and inflationary wage costs.
      • This multiplication of entities is certainly seen by many physicists to be an unattractive feature of the theory.
      • The plans do not include water chutes, however, since they are seen as being outdated and unattractive to today's leisure users.
      • And I wonder why religion has always been such an unattractive proposition to me.
      • But Dublin also had a number of unattractive features that had the potential to turn away investors.
      • Dunfermline is taking money with a twinkle in its eye, paying a not unattractive 6.75% on the top band.
      • Analysts said that the bank could not perform well compared to other banks because of all the unattractive red tape.
      • This makes them an extremely unattractive economic proposition for even the most destitute ragpicker.
      • This is because medicine has become unattractive to men professionally, financially, socially and academically.
      • It seemed like an unattractive proposition for audiences and ultimately box office sales.
      • Indeed, for the cause of action to arise only when the lender realises his security would be a highly unattractive proposition.
      Synonyms
      plain, ugly, plain-looking, ugly-looking, plain-featured, ill-favoured, unappealing, unsightly, unlovely, unprepossessing, displeasing
 
 
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