“Uninteresting”: should this word be written together or separately? You can find the answer to the question in the submitted article.
We determine the part of the speech of the words “interesting”, “interesting”
How do you spell “uninteresting” and “uninteresting”? To answer the question posed, it is necessary to determine the part of speech to which these lexical units belong. This is pretty easy to do. To do this, you only need to ask the necessary questions: “which?” - uninteresting, "what?" - not interested. Therefore, these words are adjective names. Moreover, the first of them is complete, and the second is short.
Not with short adjectives
How is the word "uninteresting" spelled: together or separately? In order to answer the question posed, it is necessary to refer to the corresponding rule of the Russian language. As you know, it says that “not” with short adjectives is required to be written in the same way as with full ones. Here is an example: the road is not easy - the road is not easy.
So, in order to learn how to write a short adjective “not interesting”, you need to study all those rules that relate to full adjectives.
Not with full adjectives
The question of continuous or separate spelling of “not” with adjectives is rather complicated. This is due primarily to the fact that the choice of the correct spelling depends on many factors. Moreover, in the Russian language there are a large number of exceptions in this regard.
Unified spelling "not"
The answer to the question of how the word "uninteresting" is spelled - together or separately, depends entirely on what the spelling of the full name of the adjective is "uninteresting".
So, adjectives with "not" are written together in the following cases:
- if they are not used without “not” (for example, careless or sloppy, nondescript or nondescript);
- if words with “not” can be replaced by some synonym, but only without “not” (for example, ugly - ugly, ugly - ugly, small - small, unmarried - idle).
By the way, it is far from always possible to pick up such a synonym without “not”. In this case, the name of the adjective can be clarified by any special expression that is very close in meaning.
So, “uninteresting” should be written together, because this word can easily be replaced by the synonym “boring”. However, there are also cases when it is used with "not" separately. This will be discussed later.
Separate spelling
Full and short adjectives are written with "not" separately in the following cases:
- If the proposal has any opposition. Let us give a good example: not beautiful, but ugly; not interesting, but boring.
- If the proposal has a denial of any quality or property. It should also be noted that to such words it is often possible to choose a contrast. Here are some illustrative examples: spoons are not gold (but, for example, steel), honey is not buckwheat (but, for example, lime), the paint is not white (but, for example, yellow), the color is not yellow (but, for example, brown, and so on) )
- If a dubious word expresses an underlined statement in an emotionally colored or interrogative sentence. To give a clear example: Who exactly does not know the names of these characters? - They are known to all.
Separate spelling with explanatory words
“Uninteresting”: is it necessary to spell this word together or separately? It should be noted that both spellings have every right to exist.
So, “not” should be written separately with the names of adjectives, if in the sentence the explanatory words are: “by no means”, “far from”, “not at all”, some negative pronouns (for example, no one), as well as adverbs that begin with “neither” (for example, not at all). To make this rule more clear, we give illustrative examples:
- It was no stupid idea.
- It was not at all interesting to watch this movie.
- An unknown actress played in this series.
- Far from an easy exercise I completed in a few minutes.
Continuous spelling with explanatory words
“Not” with the name adjective is written together in the following cases:
- If there are other explanatory words. Here are some examples: words that are incomprehensible to me, a statement inappropriate in this case, an unsuitable playground for games, and so on. In addition, those adjectives that end in "-th" (independent, indestructible, fireproof, incorrigible, waterproof, incorrigible, waterproof and the like) are written together. They are also written together with "not", even if there are explanatory words to them.
- If next to the name of the adjective there is one of the adverbs of the measure (answering the questions “how much?”, “To what extent?”), As well as the adverbs of the degree (answering the question “to what extent?”). These words include the following: very, very, in the highest degree, extremely and almost. Here are some illustrative examples: a very bad week, extremely ugly behavior, a very difficult process, and a highly uninteresting broadcast.