undecreasing
undecreasing adjective: not decreasing; growing no smaller.
Adjective
undecreasing (not comparable)
- Not decreasing; growing no smaller.
- And what is still more, for many feet after emerging from the brain's cavity, the spinal cord remains of an undecreasing girth, almost equal to that of the brain.1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC
Origin of undecreasing
From un- + decreasing.
Questions about undecreasing
- What does undecreasing mean?
- Undecreasing means not decreasing; growing no smaller.
- What part of speech is undecreasing?
- Undecreasing is an adjective.
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