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unhealing

unhealing adjective: that does not heal. Also the present participle and gerund of unheal.

Adjective

unhealing (not comparable)

  1. That does not heal.
    • Those, in whose unhealing hearts the sight of those bleak tablets sympathetically caused the old wounds to bleed afresh.1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 7, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC

Also used as

unhealing is also the present participle and gerund of unheal.

Origin of unhealing

From un- + healing.

Questions about unhealing

What does unhealing mean?
Unhealing means that does not heal.
What part of speech is unhealing?
Unhealing is an adjective.

Words near unhealing in the dictionary

  1. unheady
  2. unheal
  3. unhealable
  4. unhealably
  5. unhealed
  6. unhealing
  7. unheals
  8. unhealth
  9. unhealthful
  10. unhealthfully
  11. unhealthfulness

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