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ungloriful

ungloriful adjective: not gloriful or glorious; unglorious.

Adjective

ungloriful (comparative more ungloriful, superlative most ungloriful)

  1. Not gloriful or glorious; unglorious
    • But now, although pride was not a completely empty emotion for me, there was hardly the flood of self-esteem I once would have felt . . . for I had grown, or at least I had learned; I had caught sad glimpses of the ungloriful truth.1976, Micheal Clodfelter, The Pawns of Dishonor
    • We die, oh, we die and enter the ungloriful land where we have no purpose and wander about separated from anything we knew in life," stammered a tearful Bombylious.2007, W. Schmitz, Planets Against Us- Grues and Kins, page 61

Synonyms of ungloriful

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Antonyms

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Forms of ungloriful

comparativemore ungloriful
superlativemost ungloriful
alternative formungloryful

Origin of ungloriful

From un- + gloriful.

Questions about ungloriful

What does ungloriful mean?
Ungloriful means not gloriful or glorious; unglorious.
What part of speech is ungloriful?
Ungloriful is an adjective.

Words near ungloriful in the dictionary

  1. unglobular
  2. ungloomed
  3. ungloomy
  4. ungloried
  5. unglorified
  6. ungloriful
  7. unglorify
  8. unglorifying
  9. unglorious
  10. ungloriously
  11. ungloriousness

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