unappealing

«unappealing» in Mova's school dictionary: not attractive, not nice or not interesting — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

adjective (unappealing, more unappealing)

meaning for a pupil

1) Unappealing means not attractive, not nice or not interesting. tree →

2) Unappealing food does not look or smell nice. tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday life children say food, ideas or jobs are unappealing when they don't want them. In writing it is a polite word for «not nice». Phrases: look unappealing, an unappealing idea.

examples

• The grey soup looked unappealing. tree →
• Homework on a sunny day seems unappealing. tree →
• The old toy shop was dark and unappealing. tree →
• The idea of walking in the rain was unappealing. tree →
• The dish was healthy but unappealing to the children. tree →
• The room looked unappealing until we painted it. tree →

note

Prefix un- + appealing. Opposite: appealing, attractive. It is softer than «horrible» or «disgusting».

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «unappealing» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.