Word.ws English Dictionary

unlasting

unlasting is the present participle and gerund of unlast.

Meaning of unlast

Verb

unlast (third-person singular simple present unlasts, present participle unlasting, simple past and past participle unlasted)

  1. (intransitive) To fail to last.
  2. (transitive) To remove (a shoe) from a last.

Adjective

unlasting (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) Not lasting.
    • Unlasting passion, soon outworn conceit,
      Whereon I built, and on so dureless trust!a. 1618, Sir Walter Raleigh, The 21st and Last Book of the Ocean, to Cynthia

Origin of unlasting

See unlast.

From un- + lasting.

Questions about unlasting

What does unlasting mean?
Unlasting means not lasting.
What is unlasting the present participle and gerund of?
Unlasting is the present participle and gerund of unlast.
What part of speech is unlasting?
Unlasting is an adjective.

Words near unlasting in the dictionary

  1. unlassoed
  2. unlassoing
  3. unlassos
  4. unlast
  5. unlasted
  6. unlasting
  7. unlasts
  8. unlatch
  9. unlatched
  10. unlatcher
  11. unlatchers

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: unlasting (page history and authors); unlast (page history and authors). 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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “unlasting.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/unlasting. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.