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nonsitting

nonsitting adjective: not sitting.

Adjective

nonsitting (not comparable)

  1. Not sitting.
    • They showed that across all postures, nonsitting infants more frequently yoked their arms into a bilateral reach pattern than the independent sitters.1998, Mark L. Latash, Mindy F. Levin, Progress in Motor Control, page 61
    • Five of the six nonsitting justices (as of late 1798), including Alfred Moore who later replaced James Iredell, appear to have viewed the Sedition Act as a violation of freedoms of press and speech.2016, Wendell R. Bird, Press and Speech Under Assault, page XXXI

Forms of nonsitting

alternative formnon-sitting

Origin of nonsitting

From non- + sitting.

Questions about nonsitting

What does nonsitting mean?
Nonsitting means not sitting.
What part of speech is nonsitting?
Nonsitting is an adjective.

Words near nonsitting in the dictionary

  1. nonsister
  2. nonsisters
  3. nonsitosterolemic
  4. nonsitter
  5. nonsitters
  6. nonsitting
  7. nonsituational
  8. nonskater
  9. nonskaters
  10. nonsked
  11. nonskeds

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