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unprettying

unprettying is the present participle and gerund of unpretty.

Meaning of unpretty

Verb

unpretty (third-person singular simple present unpretties, present participle unprettying, simple past and past participle unprettied)

  1. (transitive) To make unpretty or less attractive
    • Vast gloom unprettied the features of Herman Ruth today when he gave himself to serious contemplation of the distressing futility of many things and how increasingly tough it's becoming for an honest feller to get along in this wearying world.2006, Leigh Montville, The Big Bam: The Life and Times of Babe Ruth

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Questions about unprettying

What is unprettying the present participle and gerund of?
Unprettying is the present participle and gerund of unpretty.

Words near unprettying in the dictionary

  1. unprettiest
  2. unprettified
  3. unprettily
  4. unprettiness
  5. unpretty
  6. unprettying
  7. unprevailing
  8. unprevalent
  9. unprevaricating
  10. unpreventability
  11. unpreventable

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unprettying (page history and authors); unpretty (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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