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unenlivening

unenlivening adjective: not enlivening.

Adjective

unenlivening (comparative more unenlivening, superlative most unenlivening)

  1. Not enlivening.
    • There were books with dreary, unenlivening titles,--egotistic always, as recording Smith's opinions on this, and Jones's commentaries on that.1877, Bret Harte, The Story of a Mine
    • These unenlivening calculations were catching.1904, Elizabeth Robins (C. E. Raimond), The Magnetic North

Forms of unenlivening

comparativemore unenlivening
superlativemost unenlivening

Origin of unenlivening

From un- + enlivening.

Questions about unenlivening

What does unenlivening mean?
Unenlivening means not enlivening.
What part of speech is unenlivening?
Unenlivening is an adjective.

Words near unenlivening in the dictionary

  1. unenlightenedly
  2. unenlightening
  3. unenlighteningly
  4. unenlisted
  5. unenlivened
  6. unenlivening
  7. unenmeshed
  8. unenmity
  9. unennobled
  10. unennobling
  11. unenounced

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