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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
unimaginative
adjective
1: deficient in originality or creativity; lacking powers of invention; "a sterile ideology lacking in originality"; "unimaginative development of a musical theme"; "uninspired writing" [syn: {sterile}, {uninspired}, {uninventive}]
2: dealing only with concrete facts
3: lacking spontaneity or originality or individuality; "stereotyped phrases of condolence"; "even his profanity was unimaginative" [syn: {stereotyped}, {stereotypic}, {stereotypical}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
68 Moby Thesaurus words for "unimaginative": Spartan, arid, ascetic, austere, bald, bare, barren, candid, common, commonplace, direct, dry, dull, earthbound, flat, frank, homely, homespun, humdrum, infecund, infertile, insipid, lean, literal, matter-of-fact, mundane, natural, neat, open, ordinary, pedestrian, plain, plain-speaking, plain-spoken, poetryless, prosaic, prose, prosing, prosy, pure, rustic, severe, simple, simple-speaking, sober, spare, staid, stark, stolid, straightforward, stuffy, tiresome, unadorned, unaffected, unembellished, unfanciful, unideal, unidealistic, unimpassioned, uninspired, uninventive, unoriginal, unpoetic, unpoetical, unromantic, unromanticized, unvarnished, vapid
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