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unsexy

adj

Etymology

From un- + sexy.

  1. derived from *séksus✻
  2. derived from *seksus✻
  3. derived from sexus — “gender; gender traits; males or females; genitals”
  4. derived from sexe — “genitals; gender”
  5. inherited from sexe — “sex 􂀿distinction between male and female􂁀 and gender”
  6. suffixed as sexy — “sex + y”
  7. prefixed as unsexy — “un + sexy”

Definitions

  1. Not sexy.

  2. Perceived as not having wide contemporary interest

    Perceived as not having wide contemporary interest; plodding.

    • Byford explains: "My first task is to maintain a good state of repair. Attend to the basics. The unsexy stuff - the tracks, the drains, things that don't involve a ribbon-cutting. [...]."

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for unsexy. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA