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unloving

unloving adjective: not loving. Also the present participle and gerund of unlove.

Adjective

unloving (comparative more unloving, superlative most unloving)

  1. Not loving.
    • Every year between six and eight million parents desert their children; two to three million teenagers run away from typically unloving homes.1977 April 30, Louie Crew, “Expelling the Genital Exchequers from the Temple”, in Gay Community News, page 5
    • The negative belief is always more petty, self-serving, unallowing, resistant, fearful, and unloving.2014, Sean Morgan, Tracy Phillips, Mastery of Change

Also used as

unloving is also the present participle and gerund of unlove.

Forms of unloving

comparativemore unloving
superlativemost unloving

Origin of unloving

From un- + loving.

Words formed from unloving

Questions about unloving

What does unloving mean?
Unloving means not loving.
What part of speech is unloving?
Unloving is an adjective.

Words near unloving in the dictionary

  1. unlover-like
  2. unloverlike
  3. unloverliness
  4. unloverly
  5. unloves
  6. unloving
  7. unlovingly
  8. unlovingness
  9. unlowerable
  10. unlowered
  11. unlowly

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