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unindustrious

unindustrious adjective: not industrious.

Adjective

unindustrious (comparative more unindustrious, superlative most unindustrious)

  1. Not industrious.
    • Like a lot of young journalism school graduates then and now, I had come to see political journalism as a lesser form of the craft, populated mostly by the effete and the unindustrious, while the real reporters were out there braving crack corners and foreign wars.2007 November 11, Matt Bai, “See How They Ran”, in New York Times

Forms of unindustrious

comparativemore unindustrious
superlativemost unindustrious

Origin of unindustrious

From un- + industrious.

Words formed from unindustrious

Questions about unindustrious

What does unindustrious mean?
Unindustrious means not industrious.
What part of speech is unindustrious?
Unindustrious is an adjective.

Words near unindustrious in the dictionary

  1. unindurable
  2. unindurated
  3. unindustrial
  4. unindustrialised
  5. unindustrialized
  6. unindustrious
  7. unindustriously
  8. unindustriousness
  9. uninebriated
  10. uninebriating
  11. uninegative

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