unappetizing
/ʌnˈapɪtʌɪzɪŋ
/(also unappetising)
adjective
Not inviting or attractive; unwholesome: an unappetizing leg of chicken one of the unappetizing features of politics...
- Mr Gray has previously called for supermarkets to stock more British fruit and he even branded French apples tasteless and unappetising.
- Love is the salt of life and without it, life would be tasteless and unappetising.
- First off, Goddard is much too old to be playing the mother of young children and Matthew Cottle makes a far from attractive Clive, so this illicit coupling is as unappetising as it is unconvincing.
Synonyms
unpalatable, uninviting, unappealing, unpleasant, off-putting, disagreeable, distasteful, unsavoury, insipid, tasteless, flavourless, unattractive, uninteresting, dull;
inedible, uneatable, revolting, nauseating, foul, nasty, detestable, loathsome, abhorrent
informal yucky, sick-making, gross
Derivatives
unappetizingly
- Incidentally, the chard lasted all winter and, although the leaves looked unappetisingly tatty, it was good to have something interesting in the garden.
- The lucky recipient would then chew upon the remaining flesh of the fruit before it went completely and unappetisingly brown from contact with the air, like a dog gnawing a bone dropped from the master's table.
- The onions in the accompanying ‘onion jam’ however, had been more candied than caramelised which left them unappetisingly crunchy with all the colour of glue.
- Pick's disease
- pickshaft
- picksome
- pick someone's brains (or brain)
- pick someone's pockets
- pick someone/thing off
- pick someone/thing out
- pick someone/thing to pieces (or apart)
- pick someone up
- pick something clean
- pick something out of a hat
- pick something over (or pick through)
- pick something up
- Pick's syndrome
- pickthank
- Pickt-hatch
- picktooth
- pick up
- pickup
- pick up after
- pickup arm
- pickup baler
- pickup bar
- pickup body
- pickup camper