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undebating

undebating adjective: not engaging in debate.

Adjective

undebating (not comparable)

  1. Not engaging in debate.
    • Francis French had brought his fair cousin, to be, as is our masculinely dominant custom, an undebating, undining spectator of the scene, while he himself became an active participator in both the viands and the discourse.1839, Dennis Burrowes Kelly, The Manor of Glenmore: Or, The Irish Peasant, volume 1, page 71
    • Only a man with an undebating mind, with a positive cause and belief can afford to rush forward to meet his destiny in that heroically galvanic fashion as did Sagheer at the Wagah Sector.1967, The Pakistan Review, page 45

Origin of undebating

From un- + debating.

Questions about undebating

What does undebating mean?
Undebating means not engaging in debate.
What part of speech is undebating?
Undebating is an adjective.

Words near undebating in the dictionary

  1. undebarred
  2. undebased
  3. undebatable
  4. undebatably
  5. undebated
  6. undebating
  7. undebauched
  8. undebilitated
  9. undebilitating
  10. undebrided
  11. undebriefed

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