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unanswering

unanswering adjective: giving no answer; unresponsive.

Adjective

unanswering (not comparable)

  1. Giving no answer; unresponsive.
    • Lying so, her face turned up against it, her stiffened lips kissing the very dumb, unanswering wood, a thought came to her.1869, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Men, Women, and Ghosts
    • He shouted till he was hoarse, and till the sound of his own voice in all that unanswering and listening world began to frighten him.1910, Algernon Blackwood, The Wendigo

Origin of unanswering

From un- + answering.

Questions about unanswering

What does unanswering mean?
Unanswering means giving no answer; unresponsive.
What part of speech is unanswering?
Unanswering is an adjective.

Words near unanswering in the dictionary

  1. unanswerable
  2. unanswerableness
  3. unanswerables
  4. unanswerably
  5. unanswered
  6. unanswering
  7. unantagonistic
  8. unantagonistically
  9. unantagonizable
  10. unantagonized
  11. unantagonizing

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