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unglowing

unglowing adjective: not emitting a glow of light.

Adjective

unglowing (comparative more unglowing, superlative most unglowing)

  1. Not emitting a glow of light.
    • It came at last with a mother-of-pearl sheen at the zenith, such as I had never seen before in the tropics, unglowing, almost grey, with a strange reminder of high latitudes.1916, Joseph Conrad, The Shadow-Line
  2. Not conveying praise.
    • Is it acceptable to share “good letters” but never share letters with neutral or unglowing commentary?2002, Patricia Keith-Spiegel, The ethics of teaching: a casebook, page 108

Forms of unglowing

comparativemore unglowing
superlativemost unglowing

Origin of unglowing

From un- + glowing.

Questions about unglowing

What does unglowing mean?
Unglowing means not emitting a glow of light.
What part of speech is unglowing?
Unglowing is an adjective.

Words near unglowing in the dictionary

  1. unglottalized
  2. unglove
  3. ungloved
  4. ungloves
  5. ungloving
  6. unglowing
  7. unglozed
  8. ungluable
  9. unglucosylated
  10. unglucuronidated
  11. unglue

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