What's the difference between enthusiastic and unenthusiastic?

Enthusiastic


Definition:

  • (a.) Alt. of Enthusiastical
  • (n.) An enthusiast; a zealot.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The new Somali government has enthusiastically embraced the new deal and created a taskforce, bringing together the government, lead donors (the US, UK, EU, Norway and Denmark), the World Bank and civil society.
  • (2) The Nazi extermination of Jews in Lithuania (aided enthusiastically by local Lithuanians) was virtually total.
  • (3) Since then, Republican activists and enthusiasts have been energised and polls have tightened.
  • (4) Life exists in the noisy grey bits between a 'no' and full, enthusiastic consent.
  • (5) People like me argued that's an analytical error, that the most enthusiastic deepeners will be the new member states, and we were three-quarters right.
  • (6) So when he came to tell me, he said, "Don't get too enthusiastic, it has nothing to do with your abilities, it's to do with the fact that they have just raised the expatriate allowances."
  • (7) In contrast, we are less enthusiastic about thrombolytic therapy for distal small vessel thrombosis or embolism because complete clot lysis was achieved in only one of five patients.
  • (8) He has opinions on everything, and he hurls them at you so enthusiastically, so ferociously, that before long you feel battered.
  • (9) Netanyahu can be expected to enthusiastically support a tougher Trump line .
  • (10) The new defence minister, Augustin Bizimana, enthusiastically carried on arming the Interahamwe.
  • (11) The project provided experiential learning and interdisciplinary interactions that were enthusiastically received by the students.
  • (12) Russia was less enthusiastic about an area out of reach of its bombers, insisting on fighters going one way and civilians the other.
  • (13) And it has proved too forgiving of welfare abuse, too obsessed with universal human rights, and too enthusiastic about immigration.
  • (14) Nadella pleases ValueAct – see this enthusiastic statement today – which has been until now Microsoft's biggest critic.
  • (15) He found Margaret Thatcher far more enthusiastic and he was invited to a Downing Street reception where he met the chairman of a small City bank.
  • (16) It positioned Labour much more to the left, David Cameron's Tories a little more to the right, and the Liberal Democrats as the sole enthusiasts for a previously overcrowded centre.
  • (17) Sakowicz, witness to tens of thousands of murders at the Ponar (Paneriai) site outside Vilnius, recorded accurately that most of the killers were enthusiastic locals.
  • (18) He says the president is ready to embrace the results "enthusiastically" and accept the will of the people.
  • (19) However visitors to benm.at – an iPhone and iPod touch enthusiasts' website – can download a profile that instantly activates the tethering system free of charge.
  • (20) This use of MR imaging has been enthusiastically accepted by orthopedic surgeons, and the assessment of musculoskeletal trauma has emerged as one of the most commonly utilized applications of this diagnostic method.

Unenthusiastic


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The advocates of reform – including the Guardian – should be unenthusiastic about endorsing a messy compromise with unintended consequences and with the prospect of years of stalemate in the courts and with the regulator itself.
  • (2) Low wages often mean high employee turnover and unenthusiastic workers, Flickinger said, and that can translate into poor customer service and low customer satisfaction.
  • (3) Weaving believes that "hard outcomes" are the best way of convincing unenthusiastic GPs that the new commissioning model works.
  • (4) Does it sound unenthusiastic to raise a sabbatical and postpone your start date for a year before you've even begun?
  • (5) Subjects listened to an audiotaped persuasive message that conveyed arguments of either high or low quality and that was responded to by either an enthusiastic or an unenthusiastic overheard audience.
  • (6) The EU’s environment department is unenthusiastic about the review and officials stress that they want to modernise rather than bury the conservation rules.
  • (7) This xenophobia mimicked a wider trend in eastern and central Europe – whose citizens were consistently the most unenthusiastic about the benefits of immigration.
  • (8) He is understandably unenthusiastic about going into details.
  • (9) It is about building bridges with all the parties in Northern Ireland James Brokenshire, Northern Ireland secretary As well as dismissing Anderson’s suggestion of an independent talks chairman, Brokenshire appeared unenthusiastic about a proposal from the Independent Unionist MP Sylvia Hermon that American diplomat Barbara Stephenson might be nominated as overseer at the discussions.
  • (10) The Obama administration, too, remained deeply unenthusiastic about military involvement.
  • (11) Not only is he unenthusiastic about Juncker, he was the biggest winner in the European elections and will hold the EU's rotating six-month presidency from 1 July.
  • (12) And, though it was perhaps unsurprising that Cameron should be unenthusiastic about Juncker’s candidacy, the vehemence of his opposition was extraordinary.
  • (13) The army, in particular, tends to be unenthusiastic, not just because it could mean more cuts in troops but because nuclear weapons are not something it can train with or ever expect to see used.
  • (14) Tehmina Kazi, director of British Muslims for Secular Democracy , is similarly unenthusiastic about the national debate idea.
  • (15) A further 37% of people were described as unenthusiastic about their online activities.
  • (16) The indifferent or unenthusiastic IDC (I don’t care) first appeared in 1989, while CBA (can’t be arsed) dates from 1998.
  • (17) The Obama administration, which has been reluctant to cast itself as anti-Wall Street, is unenthusiastic.
  • (18) His complaints about funding have led to reports of tensions between him and Downing Street, where aides are said to have expressed irritation in private about Stevens’ “unenthusiastic” approach to finding further savings in the NHS.
  • (19) The majority of the 14 general practitioners interviewed were unenthusiastic about the scheme.
  • (20) We turned our backs on them and many of them have either withheld their votes from us or felt disillusioned, unenthusiastic and unmotivated,” he said.