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unpropitiative

unpropitiative adjective: not propitiative.

Adjective

unpropitiative (comparative more unpropitiative, superlative most unpropitiative)

  1. Not propitiative.
    • She is considered, however, an advantageous speculation; but, notwithstanding she came in for her share of the contingent spoils, no inconsiderable trifle for a country practitioner of law, Black was surly and unpropitiative.1845?, William Gilmore Simms, Life in America: Or, The Wigwam and the Cabin (page 296)
    • All her outward serenity, so unpropitiative and inexorable, had only veiled—even as his own wild ways had veiled—a misery perhaps more complete than his own.1887, Epoch, volume 2, page 268

Forms of unpropitiative

comparativemore unpropitiative
superlativemost unpropitiative

Origin of unpropitiative

From un- + propitiative.

Questions about unpropitiative

What does unpropitiative mean?
Unpropitiative means not propitiative.
What part of speech is unpropitiative?
Unpropitiative is an adjective.

Words near unpropitiative in the dictionary

  1. unprophetically
  2. unprophetlike
  3. unpropitiable
  4. unpropitiated
  5. unpropitiating
  6. unpropitiative
  7. unpropitiatory
  8. unpropitious
  9. unpropitiously
  10. unpropitiousness
  11. unproportion

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