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nonpractising

nonpractising is the alternative spelling of nonpracticing.

Meaning of nonpracticing

Adjective

nonpracticing (not comparable)

  1. Not practicing; of a person in a particular profession, not engaged in the practice of that profession; of a person born into a particular religion, not abiding by the rituals and mores of that religion.
    • Michael: Um, uh, I guess um, I guess I'm, uh a nonpracticing Jew.
    • Lelaina: Hey, I'm a nonpracticing virgin.1994, Helen Childress, Reality Bites, spoken by Michael Grates and Lelaina Pierce (Ben Stiller and Winona Ryder)

Questions about nonpractising

What is nonpractising the alternative spelling of?
Nonpractising is the alternative spelling of nonpracticing.

Words near nonpractising in the dictionary

  1. nonpowerful
  2. nonpracticable
  3. nonpractical
  4. nonpractice
  5. nonpracticing
  6. nonpractising
  7. nonpractitioner
  8. nonpractitioners
  9. nonpraedial
  10. nonpragmatic
  11. nonpraying

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Adapted from Wiktionary: nonpractising (page history and authors); nonpracticing (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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