unalluring
adjective
uk /ˌʌn.əˈljʊə.rɪŋ//ˌʌn.əˈlʊə.rɪŋ/ us /ˌʌn.əˈlʊr.ɪŋ/
not attractive or exciting:
She had a small flat in one of the more unalluring parts of the town.
This book is actually well worth reading if you are not put off by its unalluring title.
Opposite
alluring
They made me wear an unalluring purple helmet.
I find overconfident people like him distinctly unalluring.
This club must be one of the most unalluring venues in the entire country.
Some of the ingredients have unalluring names such as hydrocinnamic aldehyde and benzyl benzoate.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Not attractive to look at
back end
be no oil paintingidiom
be not much to look atidiom
bleakly
bleakness
gopping
gracelessly
have a face like the back end of a busidiom
hideous
hideousness
pretty-pretty
putridly
reptilian
scrappily
scrappy
unpretty
unshapely
unsightly
vulgarity
vulgarly
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