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uninteresting

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in⋅ter⋅est⋅ing

  [in-ter-uh-sting, -truh-sting, -tuh-res-ting]
–adjective
1. engaging or exciting and holding the attention or curiosity: an interesting book.
2. arousing a feeling of interest: an interesting face.
—Idiom
3. in an interesting condition, (of a woman) pregnant.
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Origin:
1705–15; interest + -ing 2

Related forms:
in⋅ter⋅est⋅ing⋅ly, adverb
in⋅ter⋅est⋅ing⋅ness, noun

Synonyms:
1. absorbing, entertaining. Interesting, pleasing, gratifying mean satisfying to the mind. Something that is interesting occupies the mind with no connotation of pleasure or displeasure: an interesting account of a battle. Something that is pleasing engages the mind favorably: a pleasing account of the wedding. Something that is gratifying fulfills expectations, requirements, etc.: a gratifying account of his whereabouts; a book gratifying in its detail.

Antonyms:
1. dull.
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un·in·ter·est·ing   (ŭn-ĭn'trĭ-stĭng, -tər-ĭ-stĭng, -tə-rěs'tĭng)   
adj.  Arousing little or no interest or curiosity; boring.
un·in'ter·est·ing·ly adv.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Computing Dictionary

uninteresting jargon
1. Said of a problem that, although nontrivial, can be solved simply by throwing sufficient resources at it.
2. Also said of problems for which a solution would neither advance the state of the art nor be fun to design and code.
Hackers regard uninteresting problems as intolerable wastes of time, to be solved (if at all) by lesser mortals. *Real* hackers (see toolsmith) generalise uninteresting problems enough to make them interesting and solve them - thus solving the original problem as a special case (and, it must be admitted, occasionally turning a molehill into a mountain, or a mountain into a tectonic plate).
See WOMBAT, SMOP. Compare toy problem. Oppose interesting.
[The Jargon File]
(1995-03-10)

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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