S vs Underwhelming - What's the difference?
s | underwhelming |
The nineteenth letter of the .
voiceless alveolar fricative
Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.
Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type
Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur
Symbols for SI units
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Failing to interest; usually used in response to something that was presented as exciting.
:The dinosaur island in Crystal Palace Park is underwhelming.
*{{quote-news, year=1990, date=July 13, author=Rita Kempley, title=‘Quick Change’ (R), work=The Washington Post
, passage=Davis, plush as ever, is a little whiny and underwhelming as Murray's girlfriend, who spends much of her time nurturing Quaid, doing his familiar sweet-natured lummox.}}
*{{quote-news, year=2005, date=August 17, author=Edward Wyatt, title=Sales Lag for Book on Deep Throat, work=New York Times
, passage=But in Washington and just about everywhere else, sales of "The Secret Man," Bob Woodward's story of the source known as Deep Throat, have been underwhelming .}}
As a letter s
is the letter s with a.As an adjective underwhelming is
failing to interest; usually used in response to something that was presented as exciting.s
Translingual
{{Basic Latin character info, previous=r, next=t, image= (wikipedia s)Letter
Symbol
(wikipedia) (mul-symbol)See also
(Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=··· , Character=S , Braille=? }}underwhelming
English
Adjective
(en adjective)citation
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