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uninnovating

uninnovating adjective: that does not innovate.

Adjective

uninnovating (not comparable)

  1. That does not innovate.
    • He dismissed the uninnovating clergy from their city livings, and brought in his own partisans, who should instruct their hearers what was now the right way of thinking and acting in Bristol to keep pace with the times; […]1879, John Webb, Memorials of the Civil War Between King Charles I. and the Parliament of England as it affected Herefordshire and adjacent counties, page 233
    • The French and Spanish originally settled the country, and from those Latin peoples were received the first characteristics which an uninnovating spirit and a warm climate have tended to preserve, with comparatively little change […]1889, Lee Meriwether, The Tramp at Home, page 62

Origin of uninnovating

From un- + innovating.

Questions about uninnovating

What does uninnovating mean?
Uninnovating means that does not innovate.
What part of speech is uninnovating?
Uninnovating is an adjective.

Words near uninnovating in the dictionary

  1. uninnocence
  2. uninnocent
  3. uninnocently
  4. uninnocuous
  5. uninnovated
  6. uninnovating
  7. uninnovative
  8. uninoculable
  9. uninoculated
  10. uninodal
  11. uninodular

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