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unadvertising

unadvertising adjective: that does not advertise.

Adjective

unadvertising (comparative more unadvertising, superlative most unadvertising)

  1. That does not advertise.
    • And I do think the debt I owe to the ingenuity of the unadvertising David Kay should be recognized: his KayPro was, for me, the most liberating intellectual enabler of my experience […]1990, Stuart Curran, Poetic Form and British Romanticism, page viii
    • This scarcity of review books, coupled with an unknown and unadvertising publisher strengthened the growing rumor that the book was a piece of vanity publication, a book to let alone.1992, Mari Sandoz, Helen Winter Stauffer, Letters of Mari Sandoz, page 355

Forms of unadvertising

comparativemore unadvertising
superlativemost unadvertising

Origin of unadvertising

From un- + advertising.

Questions about unadvertising

What does unadvertising mean?
Unadvertising means that does not advertise.
What part of speech is unadvertising?
Unadvertising is an adjective.

Words near unadvertising in the dictionary

  1. unadversarial
  2. unadvertisable
  3. unadvertised
  4. unadvertisement
  5. unadvertisements
  6. unadvertising
  7. unadvertized
  8. unadvisability
  9. unadvisable
  10. unadvisableness
  11. unadvisably

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