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nontriumph

nontriumph noun: an event that is not a triumph.

Noun

nontriumph (plural nontriumphs)

  1. An event that is not a triumph.
    • But factor in Paige’s delectable flair for exaggerating (“Methuselah was my first bat boy”), his convenient ability to forget the nontriumphs […] and his willingness to let his memoirs be co-written by white authors who shared his eagerness to embellish — this yields the morass into which Mr. Tye...2009 June 15, Janet Maslin, “This Baseball Patriarch Could Really Pitch Himself”, in New York Times

Forms of nontriumph

pluralnontriumphs

Origin of nontriumph

From non- + triumph.

Questions about nontriumph

What does nontriumph mean?
Nontriumph means an event that is not a triumph.
What part of speech is nontriumph?
Nontriumph is a noun.
What is the plural of nontriumph?
The plural of nontriumph is nontriumphs.

Words near nontriumph in the dictionary

  1. nontrilobite
  2. nontrilobites
  3. nontrinitarian
  4. nontrinitarianism
  5. nontrinitarians
  6. nontriumph
  7. nontriumphs
  8. nontrivial
  9. nontrivial solution
  10. nontrivial solutions
  11. nontrivialities

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