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unlenient

unlenient adjective: not lenient.

Adjective

unlenient (comparative more unlenient, superlative most unlenient)

  1. Not lenient.

Antonyms of unlenient

Forms of unlenient

comparativemore unlenient
superlativemost unlenient

Origin of unlenient

From un- + lenient.

Words formed from unlenient

Questions about unlenient

What does unlenient mean?
Unlenient means not lenient.
What part of speech is unlenient?
Unlenient is an adjective.

Words near unlenient in the dictionary

  1. unleisuredness
  2. unleisurely
  3. unlemmatized
  4. unlendable
  5. unlengthened
  6. unlenient
  7. unleniently
  8. unlenited
  9. unlensed
  10. unlent
  11. unlesioned

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