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uninviting

Syllables: un·in·vit·ingUK/ˌʌnɪnˈvaɪtɪŋ/

uninviting adjective: not inviting, not attractive, not welcoming.

Adjective

uninviting (comparative more uninviting, superlative most uninviting)

  1. Not inviting, not attractive, not welcoming.
    • It's a world away from the dank and uninviting St Pancras that British Rail wanted to tear down in the 1960s.2022 November 30, Nick Brodrick, “Pride and innovation shine at St Pancras”, in RAIL, number 971, page 69

uninviting meaning in Urdu, Malayalam and Arabic

uninviting in Urdu

بےکشش, غیردلکش

uninviting in Malayalam

unattractive, unappealing, unappetizing
ആകർഷകമല്ലാത്ത, അശ്രീ, ഭംഗിയില്ലാത്ത, അനാകർഷകമായ, ആകർഷണീയതയില്ലാത്ത, വശീകരമല്ലാത്ത

uninviting in Arabic

not inviting
مُنَفِّر munaffir, مُسْتَكْرَه mustakrah, بَشِع bašiʕ

Synonyms of uninviting

Forms of uninviting

comparativemore uninviting
superlativemost uninviting

Origin of uninviting

From un- + inviting.

Words formed from uninviting

Words that rhyme with uninviting

Questions about uninviting

What does uninviting mean?
Uninviting means not inviting, not attractive, not welcoming.
What is uninviting in Urdu?
Uninviting in Urdu is بےکشش, غیردلکش. See Uninviting meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is uninviting?
Uninviting is an adjective.
How do you pronounce uninviting?
Uninviting is pronounced /ˌʌnɪnˈvaɪtɪŋ/ (UK).

Words near uninviting in the dictionary

  1. uninvitedly
  2. uninviteds
  3. uninvitee
  4. uninvitees
  5. uninvites
  6. uninviting
  7. uninvitingly
  8. uninvitingness
  9. uninvocable
  10. uninvoiced
  11. uninvokable

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: uninviting (page history and authors); uninviting (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); uninviting (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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