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unmilitary

unmilitary adjective: not military.

Adjective

unmilitary (comparative more unmilitary, superlative most unmilitary)

  1. Not military.
    • The Indian military system is full of unmilitary anomalies, all productive of irresponsibility and undiscipline.1860, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Accounts and Papers of the House of Commons, page 72
    • National Guards and Soldiers of the line […] fall into disorderly street-processions, constitutional unmilitary exclamations and hurrahings.1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, (please specify the book or page number)

Forms of unmilitary

comparativemore unmilitary
superlativemost unmilitary

Origin of unmilitary

From un- + military.

Words formed from unmilitary

Questions about unmilitary

What does unmilitary mean?
Unmilitary means not military.
What part of speech is unmilitary?
Unmilitary is an adjective.

Words near unmilitary in the dictionary

  1. unmilitant
  2. unmilitarily
  3. unmilitariness
  4. unmilitaristic
  5. unmilitarized
  6. unmilitary
  7. unmilkable
  8. unmilked
  9. unmilky
  10. unmillable
  11. unmilled

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