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Underwhelming
I was invited to a religious service last Sunday and later asked my opinion about it. I wrote "frankly, it was pretty underwhelming".
Later, I looked it up in dictionaries to detect whether I made a mistake or not. To my chagrin I found many stating underwhelming = decepcionante which I think not to be the case. To me something underwhelming is something that fails to make a good impression, not something dissapointing or frustrating. I meant to say "sinceramente, me dio una impresión bastante pobre". Was I wrong and should I write to make amends? |
No apologies needed!
English language dictionaries list underwhelming as the antonym of overwhelming. Something underwhelming fails to impress or excite a person. Perhaps a better translation into Spanish would be 'poco entusiasta' ('algo que no logra impresionar'). These also work: The service didn't impress me (any/much). It failed to impress me. It wasn't very stirring/exciting. |
Thank you a lot, Rusty!
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