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unpaying

unpaying is the present participle and gerund of unpay.

Meaning of unpay

Verb

unpay (third-person singular simple present unpays, present participle unpaying, simple past and past participle unpaid)

  1. To undo, take back, or cancel (a payment etc.).
    • Pay her the debt you owe her, and unpay the villany you have done herc. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]. Epilogue.”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […]...

Adjective

unpaying (comparative more unpaying, superlative most unpaying)

  1. That does not pay; unprofitable.
    • I have shown that stock farming with ordinary stock is very unpaying; […]1859, The Farmer's Magazine, page 9

Forms of unpaying

comparativemore unpaying
superlativemost unpaying

Questions about unpaying

What does unpaying mean?
Unpaying means that does not pay; unprofitable.
What is unpaying the present participle and gerund of?
Unpaying is the present participle and gerund of unpay.
What part of speech is unpaying?
Unpaying is an adjective.

Words near unpaying in the dictionary

  1. unpayability
  2. unpayable
  3. unpayableness
  4. unpayably
  5. unpayed
  6. unpaying
  7. unpays
  8. unpaywall
  9. unpaywalled
  10. unpaywalling
  11. unpaywalls

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unpaying (page history and authors); unpay (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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