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unnostalgic

unnostalgic adjective: not nostalgic.

Adjective

unnostalgic (comparative more unnostalgic, superlative most unnostalgic)

  1. Not nostalgic.
    • He seems an unnostalgic journalist in comparison with that generation: he was not disgusted specifically with modern life, nor did he in the thirties hanker for a pre-industrial culture – as the modernists, following the Romantics, had.1990, D. Jasper, C. Crowder, European Literature and Theology in the Twentieth Century: Ends of Time, Springer, →ISBN, page 107
    • Pivotal to this unnostalgic remembrance is the insistence that Willoughby as he was experienced is Willoughby as he was, that no interpretive machinery can be brought to bear on these memories of his distress; the sense is that any ...2001, Nicholas Dames, Amnesiac Selves: Nostalgia, Forgetting, and British Fiction, 1810-1870, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 49

Examples of unnostalgic in a sentence

  • This is a terribly unnostalgic depiction of the implications of difficult living conditions on the Soussi's fundamental well-being (hunger) and sociability (difficult personality).2008, Katherine E. Hoffman, We Share Walls: Language, Land, and Gender in Berber Morocco, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 130:
  • The film's poetic yet defiantly unnostalgic and deromanticized evocation of '68 thus marks a decisive move away from the ...2011, J. Jackson, A. Milne, J. Williams, 5/1/1968: Rethinking France's Last Revolution, Springer, →ISBN, page 284:

Antonyms of unnostalgic

Forms of unnostalgic

comparativemore unnostalgic
superlativemost unnostalgic

Origin of unnostalgic

From un- + nostalgic.

Words formed from unnostalgic

Questions about unnostalgic

What does unnostalgic mean?
Unnostalgic means not nostalgic.
How do you use unnostalgic in a sentence?
This is a terribly unnostalgic depiction of the implications of difficult living conditions on the Soussi's fundamental well-being (hunger) and sociability (difficult personality).
What part of speech is unnostalgic?
Unnostalgic is an adjective.

Words near unnostalgic in the dictionary

  1. unnormalizing
  2. unnormally
  3. unnormed
  4. unnorthern
  5. unnosed
  6. unnostalgic
  7. unnostalgically
  8. unnotable
  9. unnotably
  10. unnotarized
  11. unnotatable

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