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unenjoying

unenjoying adjective: not gaining enjoyment.

Adjective

unenjoying (comparative more unenjoying, superlative most unenjoying)

  1. Not gaining enjoyment.
    • She is one of our outcasts; a common prostitute, who obtains from the wages of promiscuous intercourse her daily bread; who sells for hire, in unenjoying prostitution, the feminine embraces given by Nature for mutual solace and endearment.1823, Henry Horne, The Citizen of Nature
    • The coachman was used to drive his grays at a good pace, Mr Casaubon being unenjoying and impatient in everything away from his desk, and wanting to get to the end of all journeys; and Dorothea was now bowled along quickly.1871–1872, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], Middlemarch […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book (please specify |book=I to...

Forms of unenjoying

comparativemore unenjoying
superlativemost unenjoying

Origin of unenjoying

From un- + enjoying.

Words formed from unenjoying

Questions about unenjoying

What does unenjoying mean?
Unenjoying means not gaining enjoyment.
What part of speech is unenjoying?
Unenjoying is an adjective.

Words near unenjoying in the dictionary

  1. unenjoined
  2. unenjoyability
  3. unenjoyable
  4. unenjoyably
  5. unenjoyed
  6. unenjoying
  7. unenjoyingly
  8. unenjoyment
  9. unenkindled
  10. unenlagiid
  11. unenlagiids

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