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unmotivating

unmotivating adjective: not motivating.

Adjective

unmotivating (not comparable)

  1. Not motivating.
    • an unmotivating teacher
    Synonyms:
    nonmotivating

Synonyms of unmotivating

Origin of unmotivating

From un- + motivating.

Questions about unmotivating

What does unmotivating mean?
Unmotivating means not motivating.
What part of speech is unmotivating?
Unmotivating is an adjective.

Words near unmotivating in the dictionary

  1. unmotivate
  2. unmotivated
  3. unmotivatedly
  4. unmotivatedness
  5. unmotivates
  6. unmotivating
  7. unmotivation
  8. unmotived
  9. unmotorable
  10. unmotorised
  11. unmotorized

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