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undarkening

undarkening adjective: not growing darker.

Adjective

undarkening (not comparable)

  1. Not growing darker.
    • Masts of sailing-ships, and spars, cluster on the left, on the undarkening sky.2015 July 10, Porter Fox, “A Honeymoon Through Italy”, in New York Times

Origin of undarkening

From un- + darkening.

Questions about undarkening

What does undarkening mean?
Undarkening means not growing darker.
What part of speech is undarkening?
Undarkening is an adjective.

Words near undarkening in the dictionary

  1. undappled
  2. undared
  3. undaring
  4. undarken
  5. undarkened
  6. undarkening
  7. undarkens
  8. undarned
  9. undashed
  10. undashing
  11. undashingly

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