unenthusiastic
/ˌʌnɪnθjuːzɪˈastɪk
/ /ˌʌnɛnθjuːzɪˈastɪk/adjective
Not having or showing enthusiasm: an unenthusiastic response...
- Sarah Lancashire's popularity seems to be dipping in the light of the unenthusiastic response to Rose and Maloney.
- The unenthusiastic response to conventional arts and science courses is a pointer to the lacklustre job opportunities available for such courses.
- She knew they were failures, and he read her disapproval in every perfunctory and unenthusiastic line of her letter.
Synonyms
indifferent, apathetic, uninvolved, passive, phlegmatic, half-hearted, lukewarm, tepid, casual, cool, listless, lacklustre, languid, lethargic, offhand, emotionless, cursory, perfunctory, unmoved
informal unenthused
rare Laodicean
Derivatives
unenthusiastically
- ‘I really need to start looking at these,’ she said unenthusiastically, picking up the nearest college prospectus to her and flicking through dispiritedly.
- ‘I should go work on my mother,’ I mumbled unenthusiastically.
- I wrapped my arms unenthusiastically round his waist and we were off.
- a square deal
- a square peg in a round hole
- (as) quick as a flash
- (as) quiet as a mouse (or lamb)
- (as) quiet as the grave
- asquint
- Asquith, Herbert Henry
- as rare (or scarce) as hen's teeth
- (as) red as a beetroot (beet)
- as regards
- as regular as clockwork
- (as) right as a trivet
- (as) right as rain
- (as) rough as guts
- ass
- -ass
- Assad, Hafiz al-
- as safe as houses
- assagai
- assai
- assail
- assailable
- assailant
- Assam
- Assamese