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unmisgiving

unmisgiving adjective: without misgivings.

Adjective

unmisgiving (comparative more unmisgiving, superlative most unmisgiving)

  1. Without misgivings.
    • A little lad, but twelve years old, whose father with the earnest but unmisgiving hardihood of a Nantucketer's paternal love, had thus early sought to initiate him in the perils and wonders of a vocation almost immemorially the destiny of all his race.1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC

Forms of unmisgiving

comparativemore unmisgiving
superlativemost unmisgiving

Origin of unmisgiving

From un- + misgiving.

Words formed from unmisgiving

Questions about unmisgiving

What does unmisgiving mean?
Unmisgiving means without misgivings.
What part of speech is unmisgiving?
Unmisgiving is an adjective.

Words near unmisgiving in the dictionary

  1. unmischievous
  2. unmiscible
  3. unmiserable
  4. unmiserliness
  5. unmiserly
  6. unmisgiving
  7. unmisgivingly
  8. unmisguided
  9. unmisinterpretable
  10. unmisleading
  11. unmisleadingly

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