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ungiving

ungiving adjective: not giving; ungenerous.

Adjective

ungiving (comparative more ungiving, superlative most ungiving)

  1. Not giving; ungenerous.
    • And yet it was clear, even as he was nearly drowning there in the North Atlantic, that in the other place there would be no objects whatsoever: that this miserable orange flotation device through which he’d stuck his arm, this fundamentally inscrutable and ungiving fabric-clad hunk of foam, would...2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections

Forms of ungiving

comparativemore ungiving
superlativemost ungiving

Origin of ungiving

From un- + giving.

Questions about ungiving

What does ungiving mean?
Ungiving means not giving; ungenerous.
What part of speech is ungiving?
Ungiving is an adjective.

Words near ungiving in the dictionary

  1. ungive
  2. ungiveable
  3. ungiven
  4. ungivenness
  5. ungives
  6. ungiving
  7. ungka
  8. ungka-puti
  9. ungka-putis
  10. ungkas
  11. Ungkaya Pukan

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