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unrequiring

unrequiring adjective: not requiring anything; undemanding. Also the present participle and gerund of unrequire.

Adjective

unrequiring (comparative more unrequiring, superlative most unrequiring)

  1. Not requiring anything; undemanding.
    • If you did but know how easily we are satisfied, and what simple, unrequiring visitors we are, you would make no difficulty of lodging us.1851, The Fair Carew, Or, Husbands and Wives, volume II, page 235
    • In great things he was simple and unrequiring, but he had a thousand small peculiarities; for instance, when travelling, he always wore a quantity of coats for the sake of the pockets he had got made in them.1859, Clemens Theodor Perthes, Life and Times of Frederick Perthes, page 377

Also used as

unrequiring is also the present participle and gerund of unrequire.

Examples of unrequiring in a sentence

  • Moreover, the Sultan is the simplest and most unrequiring man in his dominions.1894, Theodore Ayrault Dodge, Riders of Many Lands, page 389:
  • Two pairs of eyes were regarding her—Rutherford's noncommittal and unrequiring, Michael's hungry, tragic, pleading.1930 August 9, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, “The Bridal Party”, in Matthew J[oseph] Bruccoli, editor, The Short Stories of F. Scott...

Forms of unrequiring

comparativemore unrequiring
superlativemost unrequiring

Origin of unrequiring

From un- + requiring.

Questions about unrequiring

What does unrequiring mean?
Unrequiring means not requiring anything; undemanding.
How do you use unrequiring in a sentence?
Moreover, the Sultan is the simplest and most unrequiring man in his dominions.
What part of speech is unrequiring?
Unrequiring is an adjective.

Words near unrequiring in the dictionary

  1. unrequalified
  2. unrequested
  3. unrequire
  4. unrequired
  5. unrequires
  6. unrequiring
  7. unrequisite
  8. unrequisitioned
  9. unrequitable
  10. unrequital
  11. unrequited

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