unenlivening

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ enlivening.

Adjective

unenlivening (comparative more unenlivening, superlative most unenlivening)

  1. Not enlivening.
    • 1877, Bret Harte, The Story of a Mine‎[1]:
      There were books with dreary, unenlivening titles,--egotistic always, as recording Smith's opinions on this, and Jones's commentaries on that.
    • 1904, Elizabeth Robins (C. E. Raimond), The Magnetic North‎[2]:
      These unenlivening calculations were catching.
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