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unrecking

unrecking adjective: heedless.

Adjective

unrecking (comparative more unrecking, superlative most unrecking)

  1. (archaic) heedless
    • Look! see yonder Turkish cheeks of spotted tawn—living, breathing pictures painted by the sun. The Pagan leopards—the unrecking and unworshipping things, that live; and seek, and give no reasons for the torrid life they feel!1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 36”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC

Forms of unrecking

comparativemore unrecking
superlativemost unrecking

Origin of unrecking

From un- + recking.

Questions about unrecking

What does unrecking mean?
Unrecking means heedless.
What part of speech is unrecking?
Unrecking is an adjective.

Words near unrecking in the dictionary

  1. unreciprocating
  2. unreciprocation
  3. unrecitable
  4. unrecited
  5. unrecked
  6. unrecking
  7. unreckonable
  8. unreckoned
  9. unreckoning
  10. unreclaimable
  11. unreclaimably

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