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unprepossessing - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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Adjective

unprepossessing (comparative more unprepossessing, superlative most unprepossessing)

  • Unimpressive or unremarkable; dull and ordinary; nondescript.
    • ✤ Synonym: unappealing
    • ✤ One of these unseen observers, a gentleman, was youthful, and had an air of high breeding and refinement, and a face marked with intellect, though otherwise of unprepossessing aspect.1
    • ✤ She drew up a chamois-skin bag, of an unprepossessing mouse colour, and emptied out a roll of bills.2
    • ✤ In a review of operating experience with the Southern Region diesel-electric multiple-units on the Hastings line, read to the Institution of Locomotive Engineers in October, Mr. W. J. A. Sykes, Mechanical & Electrical Engineer of the S.R., revealed how the somehat unprepossessing appearance of these train sets came about.3
    • ✤ Sometimes movies with the most unprepossessing titles can surprise you. Case in point: “Monster Trucks,” a spry, spirited and delightful family film.4

Etymology

From un- + prepossessing.

Printed 2026-09-04.

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Footnotes

  1. 1838, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Sylph Etherege: ↩

  2. 1902, Myrtle Reed, chapter 4, in At the Sign of the Jack O’Lantern: ↩

  3. 1960 December, “The Hastings Line diesel-electric multiple units”, in Trains Illustrated, page 732: ↩

  4. 2017 January 12, Andy Webster, “Movie Review: Horses Under the Hood?”, in New York Times, retrieved 15 January 2017: ↩

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