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unpurposing

unpurposing adjective: purposeless.

Adjective

unpurposing (comparative more unpurposing, superlative most unpurposing)

  1. (dated) purposeless
    • And if so, then these passions, these impulses, cannot be altogether blind and unpurposing.1894, Richard Holt Hutton, Criticisms on Contemporary Thought and Thinkers

Forms of unpurposing

comparativemore unpurposing
superlativemost unpurposing

Origin of unpurposing

From un- + purposing.

Questions about unpurposing

What does unpurposing mean?
Unpurposing means purposeless.
What part of speech is unpurposing?
Unpurposing is an adjective.

Words near unpurposing in the dictionary

  1. unpurposefully
  2. unpurposefulness
  3. unpurposelike
  4. unpurposely
  5. unpurposes
  6. unpurposing
  7. unpurposive
  8. unpurposively
  9. unpurposiveness
  10. unpurse
  11. unpursed

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