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unarriving

unarriving adjective: that does not arrive.

Adjective

unarriving (not comparable)

  1. That does not arrive.
    • The dissolution of the authority of the past and the present in favour of an endlessly anticipated, but unarriving futurity links prediction to redundancy in the novel.2008, Steven Connor, The English Novel in History, 1950 to the Present, page 40

Origin of unarriving

From un- + arriving.

Questions about unarriving

What does unarriving mean?
Unarriving means that does not arrive.
What part of speech is unarriving?
Unarriving is an adjective.

Words near unarriving in the dictionary

  1. unarrested
  2. unarresting
  3. unarrests
  4. unarrival
  5. unarrived
  6. unarriving
  7. unarrogance
  8. unarrogant
  9. unarrogantly
  10. unarrogating
  11. unarrowed

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