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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unappealing/#m1)

2) Unappealing food does not look or smell nice. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unappealing/#m2)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unappealing/#x1)
- Homework on a sunny day seems unappealing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unappealing/#x2)
- The old toy shop was dark and unappealing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unappealing/#x3)
- The idea of walking in the rain was unappealing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unappealing/#x4)
- The dish was healthy but unappealing to the children. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unappealing/#x5)
- The room looked unappealing until we painted it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unappealing/#x6)

### 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unappealing/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.