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unlifting

unlifting adjective: that does not lift or abate.

Adjective

unlifting (not comparable)

  1. That does not lift or abate.
    • Do you know what pain treads the unlifting darkness with cleft hooves, with webbed feet?1979, Poetry Australia, numbers 70-72, page 67
    • For Faulkner, these years marry professional triumphs and personal disappointments: the Nobel Prize for Literature and an increasingly unlifting depression. For Joan, these years were a tempest of youth and a burgeoning literary career.2006, Lisa C. Hickman, William Faulkner and Joan Williams: The Romance of Two Writers

Origin of unlifting

From un- + lifting.

Questions about unlifting

What does unlifting mean?
Unlifting means that does not lift or abate.
What part of speech is unlifting?
Unlifting is an adjective.

Words near unlifting in the dictionary

  1. unlife
  2. unlifelike
  3. unlifelikeness
  4. unliftable
  5. unlifted
  6. unlifting
  7. unliganded
  8. unligatable
  9. unligated
  10. unligatured
  11. unlight

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