Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (2)
1.
arousing no interest or attention or curiosity or excitement;
- Example: "a very uninteresting account of her trip"2.
characteristic or suggestive of an institution especially in being uniform or dull or unimaginative;
- Example: "institutional food"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Uninteresting \Uninteresting\
See interesting.
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Uninteresting \Uninteresting\
See interesting.
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
uninteresting
adj 1: arousing no interest or attention or curiosity or
excitement; "a very uninteresting account of her trip"
[ant: interesting]
2: characteristic or suggestive of an institution especially in
being uniform or dull or unimaginative; "institutional food"
The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003):
uninteresting
adj.
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)
generalize 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 Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):
uninteresting
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.
[Jargon File]
(1995-03-10)