unelating
adjEtymology From un- + elating.
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Not inspiring elation.
- It was certainly unelating as an architectural composition; but then we know, by the story, that the plain pear is often the most luscious.1906, Bernard Capes, A Rogue's Tragedy, page 117:
- But there is something unthrilling, unelating, passionless about Black and Blue: a good many commendable details, a great deal of savoir-faire (it comes to us from Paris, after all), but not much heart.1989, New York, volume 22, page 8: