UNINFORMATIVE Synonyms: 24 Similar and Opposite Words

uninformative

adjective

Definition of uninformative

as in unenlightening

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Recent Examples of uninformative Meanwhile, over 30% of the expert peer reviews that journals routinely use to decide what to publish now show detectable AI use, and editors report that those reviews are essentially uninformative. — John Drake, Forbes.com, 30 Apr. 2026 Without a way to test relationships systematically, fragments often remain sidelined as secondary or uninformative. — Carlo Rindi Nuzzolo, The Conversation, 13 Feb. 2026 But most ancient rocks have lost these clues; heat and pressure shattered those molecules into tiny, uninformative fragments. — Pranjal Malewar, New Atlas, 27 Nov. 2025 But jet engines do not operate continuously, making this figure uninformative, perhaps even misleading. Airplanes, including their jet engines, go through rigorous regular maintenance designed to keep them at peak reliability on every flight. — Sheldon H. Jacobson, Chicago Tribune, 20 June 2025 The results suggest journalists were following an uninformative template for covering social protest. — Douglas M. McLeod, Scientific American, 10 June 2024 Google's uninformative responses to Charge 5 issues thus far won't help worries that Fitbit is dying under its new owner and may eventually be totally absorbed by the Google brand. — Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 31 Jan. 2024 Ultimately, during her first reporting trip, she was granted only a single and largely uninformative one-hour interview. — IEEE Spectrum, 28 Feb. 2014

Recent Examples of Synonyms for uninformative

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Democrats and Republicans snarled at one another, and at the witnesses, including John Dean, the Watergate figure, in a predictably sour and unenlightening spectacle.

— Jeffrey Toobin, The New Yorker, 14 June 2019
On one level, the explanation for brain avalanches is fairly simple and very unenlightening.

— Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 16 Jan. 2018

Definition of unenlightening

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Force majeure clauses excuse a party from performance when an unforeseeable external event like extreme weather or war makes performance impossible or impractical.

— Ashlee Difuntorum, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2026
There is no justification for American deaths in the name of the unsustainable and impractical goal of total military dominance, let alone unnecessary wars of choice.

— Alexander Langlois, The Orlando Sentinel, 23 Aug. 2026

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