unimpressed

adjectiveB2Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speechleans written

Unimpressed means not amazed in the slightest by what you have just seen. The raised eyebrow, the flat right, then.

You are unimpressed by something, or unimpressed with somebody. British English leans on it as understatement: saying the manager was unimpressed usually means the manager was furious. It is a step beyond neutral — an unimpressed audience has judged the performance and found it thin. Much of the time the word describes a face rather than an opinion, which is why it so often follows looked or seemed.

Definitions of unimpressed

1adjectiveunimpressedNot admiring or excited by something.B2
“The judges seemed unimpressed by his excuse.”
synonyms: unmoved

Where it comes from

From un- + impressed.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in A Man Called Ove

First appears in chapter 7 of A Man Called Ove.

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unimpressed in the wild

Razzies founder John Wilson delivered the trophy to the studios of Larry King Live but Affleck was unimpressed and left it behind.
24th Golden Raspberry Awards
Regardless, the French military was unimpressed with the demonstration and cancelled any further funding.
Ader Avion III
Vidor also appears in a cameo as himself, as does Davies (to a decidedly unimpressed reaction by herself in character as Peggy Pepper).
Show People
Capitol remained unimpressed and dropped the band, but the recordings were released in Australia by EMI/Parlophone.
Singsongs
The launch of Diigo met with mixed responses, from the unimpressed to the enthusiastic.
Diigo

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

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