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dispreferring

dispreferring is the present participle and gerund of disprefer.

Meaning of disprefer

Verb

disprefer (third-person singular simple present disprefers, present participle dispreferring, simple past and past participle dispreferred)

  1. (transitive) To favor or prefer (something) less than the alternatives.

Questions about dispreferring

What is dispreferring the present participle and gerund of?
Dispreferring is the present participle and gerund of disprefer.

Words near dispreferring in the dictionary

  1. dispred
  2. disprefer
  3. dispreference
  4. dispreferences
  5. dispreferred
  6. dispreferring
  7. disprefers
  8. disprejudice
  9. disprejudiced
  10. disprejudices
  11. disprejudicing

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dispreferring (page history and authors); disprefer (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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