Uninteresting

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Uninteresting \Uninteresting\
     See {interesting}.

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Uninteresting \Uninteresting\


     See {interesting}.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  uninteresting
       adj 1: arousing no interest or attention or curiosity or
              excitement; "a very uninteresting account of her trip"
              [ant: {interesting}]
       2: characteristic or suggestive of an institution especially in
          being uniform or dull or unimaginative; "institutional
          food"

From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  uninteresting adj. 1. Said of a problem that, although {nontrivial},
     can be solved simply by throwing sufficient resources at it. 2. Also
     said of problems for which a solution would neither advance the state of
     the art nor be fun to design and code.
  
     Hackers regard uninteresting problems as intolerable wastes of time,
     to be solved (if at all) by lesser mortals. _Real_ hackers (see
     {toolsmith}) generalize uninteresting problems enough to make them
     interesting and solve them -- thus solving the original problem as a
     special case (and, it must be admitted, occasionally turning a molehill
     into a mountain, or a mountain into a tectonic plate). See {WOMBAT},
     {SMOP}; compare {toy problem}, oppose {interesting}.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  uninteresting
       
           1. Said of a problem that, although {nontrivial}, can
          be solved simply by throwing sufficient resources at it.
       
          2. Also said of problems for which a solution would neither
          advance the state of the art nor be fun to design and code.
       
          Hackers regard uninteresting problems as intolerable wastes of
          time, to be solved (if at all) by lesser mortals.  *Real*
          hackers (see {toolsmith}) generalise uninteresting problems
          enough to make them interesting and solve them - thus
          solving the original problem as a special case (and, it must
          be admitted, occasionally turning a molehill into a mountain,
          or a mountain into a tectonic plate).
       
          See {WOMBAT}, {SMOP}.  Compare {toy problem}.  Oppose
          {interesting}.
       
          [{Jargon File}]
       
          (1995-03-10)