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nonmotorized

nonmotorized adjective: not motorized.

Adjective

nonmotorized (not comparable)

  1. Not motorized.
    • And most significant, these hordes of nonmotorized tourists, hungry for a taste of the difficult, the original, the real, do not consist solely of people young and athletic but also of old folks, fat folks, pale-faced office clerks who don’t know a rucksack from a haversack, and even children.1968, Edward Abbey, “Polemic: Industrial Tourism and the National Parks”, in Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness, McGraw-Hill; republished New York: Touchstone, 1968, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 49
    • It would continue to allow certain traditional, nonmotorized uses, like hunting, fishing and rafting.2009 July 7, “For a Wilder Rockies”, in New York Times

Forms of nonmotorized

alternative formnonmotorised

Origin of nonmotorized

From non- + motorized.

Questions about nonmotorized

What does nonmotorized mean?
Nonmotorized means not motorized.
What part of speech is nonmotorized?
Nonmotorized is an adjective.

Words near nonmotorized in the dictionary

  1. nonmotorcycle
  2. nonmotoring
  3. nonmotorised
  4. nonmotorist
  5. nonmotorists
  6. nonmotorized
  7. nonmottled
  8. nonmountaineer
  9. nonmountaineers
  10. nonmountainous
  11. nonmounted

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