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inappreciative

inappreciative adjective: unappreciative.

Adjective

inappreciative (comparative more inappreciative, superlative most inappreciative)

  1. unappreciative.
    • […] he found Mr. Poulter, with a fixed and earnest eye, wasting the perfections of his sword-exercise on probably observant but inappreciative rats.1860, George Eliot, Mill on the Floss, Book II, Chapter IV
    • She was the support and the terror of the pastor, punctual at meeting and critical of the girls in the choir and the pastor's wife's clothes, mighty in making flannels for the poor but inappreciative of their adulteries […]1949, Sinclair Lewis, chapter 31, in The God-Seeker, New York: Popular Library, pages 171–2

Forms of inappreciative

comparativemore inappreciative
superlativemost inappreciative

Origin of inappreciative

From in- + appreciative.

Words formed from inappreciative

Questions about inappreciative

What does inappreciative mean?
Inappreciative means unappreciative.
What part of speech is inappreciative?
Inappreciative is an adjective.

Words near inappreciative in the dictionary

  1. inappositeness
  2. inappreciability
  3. inappreciable
  4. inappreciably
  5. inappreciation
  6. inappreciative
  7. inappreciatively
  8. inappreciativeness
  9. inapprehensibility
  10. inapprehensible
  11. inapprehension

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