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Definition of Disinteresting
1. a. Uninteresting.
Definition of Disinteresting
1. Verb. (present participle of disinterest) ¹
2. Adjective. (obsolete) uninteresting; dull ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Disinteresting
1. disinterest [v] - See also: disinterest
Lexicographical Neighbors of Disinteresting
Literary usage of Disinteresting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Lower Canada Jurist: Collection de Décisions Du Bas Canada by Strachan Bethune, John Sprott Archibald, William Hey, John Stuart Buchan (1878)
"Section 3rd allowed the real owner to get back the goods or bill of lading by
disinteresting the assignee of the factor or agent. ..."
2. Psychological Review by American Psychological Association (1895)
"Free unimpeded action is interesting and pleasurable—impeded action or lack of
it is painful and disinteresting. Something farther is to be said. ..."
3. Library Journal by American Library Association, Library Association, Richard Rogers Bowker, Charles Ammi Cutter (1908)
"To quote one boy's opinion of nature readers, "The Nature you get in books is
the most disinteresting subject there is." The cheapness of these publications ..."
4. Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the by James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1887)
"... where there is such a dull, heavy succession of long quotations of disinteresting
passages, that it makes their method quite nauseous. ..."
5. The Inside Story of the Peace Conference by Emile Joseph Dillon (1920)
"... abandoning definitely and formally all claims to so-called historic Poland,
disinteresting themselves in all the Baltic problems which concern Russia so ..."
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