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unelating

unelating adjective: not inspiring elation.

Adjective

unelating (comparative more unelating, superlative most unelating)

  1. Not inspiring elation.
    • It was certainly unelating as an architectural composition; but then we know, by the story, that the plain pear is often the most luscious.1906, Bernard Capes, A Rogue's Tragedy, page 117
    • But there is something unthrilling, unelating, passionless about Black and Blue: a good many commendable details, a great deal of savoir-faire (it comes to us from Paris, after all), but not much heart.1989, New York, volume 22, page 8

Forms of unelating

comparativemore unelating
superlativemost unelating

Origin of unelating

From un- + elating.

Questions about unelating

What does unelating mean?
Unelating means not inspiring elation.
What part of speech is unelating?
Unelating is an adjective.

Words near unelating in the dictionary

  1. unelapsed
  2. unelastic
  3. unelasticity
  4. unelasticized
  5. unelated
  6. unelating
  7. unelbowed
  8. unelderly
  9. unelect
  10. unelectability
  11. unelectable

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