a. (UN-1 7.) Also absol.
1802. Wordsw., Excurs., II. 24. Ranging through the tamer ground Of these our unimaginative days.
1831. Scott, Ct. Rob., xvii. Nor shall Anna Comnena, the soul of wit and genius, be chained to such an unimaginative log as yonder half barbarian.
1898. Fortn. Rev., LXIV. 300. To the unimaginative, all imaginative work must inevitably present a closed door.
Hence Unimaginatively adv., -ness.
1850. N. Brit. Rev., XII. 320. Not contented with such a stretch of unimaginativeness.
1883. Cornh. Mag., April, 456. The Roman, more unimaginatively, held to the bare fact of change.
