enliven
verb (used with object)
to make vigorous or active; invigorate.
unenlivening
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a word derived from
enliven.
Example Sentences
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There were books with dreary, unenlivening titles,—egotistic always, as recording Smith's opinions on this, and Jones's commentaries on that.
From The Story of a Mine by Bret Harte
September 11th.—The dreary, monotonous, unenlivening coast line of China, with its interminable sand hills and granite peaks, once more in sight.
From In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83 by J. J. Smith
Only, alas, his Edinburgh lectures are indefinitely postponed—and other renouncements, of an unenlivening sort, have had, as indispensable precautions and prudences, to follow.
From The Letters of Henry James (volume I) by Henry James
Jack Huntly at Amberley grumbled at the unenlivening conditions of his existence, but compared with those of Mr. Moss he lived in a perfect whirlwind of gaiety.
From The Law-Breakers by Ridgwell Cullum
I had never dreamed that a sea voyage could be so unenlivening as this one is proving.
From The Mutiny of the Elsinore by Jack London
