Word.ws English Dictionary

unlavished

unlavished adjective: not lavished.

Adjective

unlavished (not comparable)

  1. Not lavished.
    • But now appeared a stranger, whom the host had no sooner recognized, than, with an abundance of courtesy unlavished on any other, he hastened down the whole length of the saloon, in order to pay him emphatic honor.1846, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mosses from an Old Manse

Origin of unlavished

From un- + lavished.

Questions about unlavished

What does unlavished mean?
Unlavished means not lavished.
What part of speech is unlavished?
Unlavished is an adjective.

Words near unlavished in the dictionary

  1. unlaurelled
  2. unlavaged
  3. unlaved
  4. unlaving
  5. unlavish
  6. unlavished
  7. unlavishly
  8. unlaw
  9. unlawed
  10. unlawful
  11. unlawful death

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: unlavished (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: “unlavished.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/unlavished. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.