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  • adjective Failing to yield information; uninformative.

Etymologies

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un- +β€Ž informing

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Examples

  • My next post will be frivolous and uninforming, per usual.

    A Modest Request mtrimm1 2006

  • Decretals, the famous head β€œDe frigidis et maleficiatis,” which is very curious, but altogether uninforming.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • Statistics are apt to be barren and uninforming and can be adapted, with almost equal plausibility, to support the arguments of either side; but these figures are eloquent and speak for themselves.

    Against Home Rule (1912) The Case for the Union Various

  • President's reply accepting the resignation was equally cool and uninforming.

    The United States Since the Civil War Charles Ramsdell Lingley

  • And as he came down the porch steps he looked about him, but dully, with sick and uninforming eyes, but with a livened interest in all familiar homely things.

    The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915

  • And another letter she received at the same time did not make her any more satisfied; it was from Johnny Gillat, about as silly and uninforming a letter as ever man wrote, but it contained one piece of information.

    The Good Comrade Una Lucy Silberrad 1913

  • The third climbed up and jumped down -- a deed purposeless, incidental, uninforming.

    Criminal Psychology: a manual for judges, practitioners, and students 1911

  • And as he came down the porch steps he looked about him, not dully, with sick and uninforming eyes, but with a livened interest in all familiar homely things.

    Sundry Accounts 1910

  • For a time Marion and I corresponded with some regularity, writing friendly but rather uninforming letters about small business things.

    Tono Bungay 1906

  • She looked at him closely, with a quick suspicion, but found his profile uninforming; at least of anything needful at the moment.

    The Lions of the Lord A Tale of the Old West Harry Leon Wilson 1903

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