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unemulous

unemulous adjective: not emulous.

Adjective

unemulous (comparative more unemulous, superlative most unemulous)

  1. Not emulous.
    • While the Gibbons have been telling in sonorous phrase of camps and courts, these humble chatterers have remained unemulous, telling trifling tales.1899, Neal Brown, Critical Confessions, page 207

Forms of unemulous

comparativemore unemulous
superlativemost unemulous

Origin of unemulous

From un- + emulous.

Questions about unemulous

What does unemulous mean?
Unemulous means not emulous.
What part of speech is unemulous?
Unemulous is an adjective.

Words near unemulous in the dictionary

  1. unemptiable
  2. unemptied
  3. unempty
  4. unemulated
  5. unemulative
  6. unemulous
  7. unemulsified
  8. unenabled
  9. unenactable
  10. unenacted
  11. unenameled

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