nonmotorized
nonmotorized adjective: not motorized.
Adjective
nonmotorized (not comparable)
- 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
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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
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