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uningratiating

uningratiating adjective: not ingratiating; making no effort to be appealing.

Adjective

uningratiating (not comparable)

  1. Not ingratiating; making no effort to be appealing
    • It's too bad his interesting arguments and observations are wedged into such an uningratiating book.2009 January 7, Dwight Garner, “When Labels Fought the Digital, and the Digital Won”, in New York Times

Origin of uningratiating

From un- + ingratiating.

Questions about uningratiating

What does uningratiating mean?
Uningratiating means not ingratiating; making no effort to be appealing.
What part of speech is uningratiating?
Uningratiating is an adjective.

Words near uningratiating in the dictionary

  1. uningenuousness
  2. uningested
  3. uningestible
  4. uningrafted
  5. uningrained
  6. uningratiating
  7. uninhabitability
  8. uninhabitable
  9. uninhabitableness
  10. uninhabitably
  11. uninhabitated

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