unelating

English

Etymology

un- +‎ elating

Adjective

unelating (comparative more unelating, superlative most unelating)

1. Not inspiring elation.
   • 1906, Bernard Capes, A Rogue's Tragedy, page 117:

     It was certainly unelating as an architectural composition; but then we know, by the story, that the plain pear is often the most luscious.

   • 1989, New York, volume 22, page 8:

     But there is something unthrilling, unelating, passionless about Black and Blue: a good many commendable details, a great deal of savoir-faire (it comes to us from Paris, after all), but not much heart.