- 1平平無奇、不怎麼樣、沒什麼看頭
Unimpressive describes the thing, not the person looking at it. Something unimpressive is not as good, big, or striking as you expected, or as it needed to be. It is a quiet criticism: not terrible, not a disaster — just smaller or weaker than it should have been. 'The hotel was clean but unimpressive.' 'His exam results were unimpressive.' You will meet it a lot in reviews, reports, and sports writing, where the writer wants to say 'not good enough' without being rude. It works well for numbers, sizes, and performances: an unimpressive score, an unimpressive building, an unimpressive first half. Because it is a polite word doing an job, it can sting more than a blunt word would — 'unimpressive' from your teacher is worse than 'okay'. One more thing worth noticing: it usually carries the idea of a comparison hiding behind it. Unimpressive compared to what people hoped for, compared to the price, compared to the other teams. If there is no expectation at all, the word has nothing to push against.
組成un-（不）＋ impressive（令人印象深刻的）。impressive ← impress ← 拉丁文 imprimō「壓上、印上」；-ive 是形容詞尾，表示「有這種作用的」。合起來：壓不出印子的。
同家族的字
- impressivethe positive twin — able to leave a mark on you
- impressthe verb it grows from
- expressshares the Latin premō 'press' — to press outward
- pressuresame premō root, the pressing itself
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
unimpressiveadj
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Lacking the ability to impress, inability to produce an impression.
- In a culture dominated by the young, fun and hard-bodied, the middle-aged big man struggles for visibility; he is dismissed as unimpressive, a cultural dead weight.
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