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unresolve

UK/(ˌ)ʌn.ɹɪˈzɒlv/US/ˌʌn.ɹɪˈzɑlv/

unresolve noun: the lack of the quality of resolve.

Noun

unresolve (uncountable)

  1. The lack of the quality of resolve.
    • But the truth is that all of us, including this Union, are now poised at a dangerous place midst the unresolve of God that flows off as unresolve into the real world around us.1996, Walter Brueggemann, Charles Campbell, The threat of life: sermons on pain, power, and weakness, page 37

Verb

unresolve (third-person singular simple present unresolves, present participle unresolving, simple past and past participle unresolved)

  1. To undo a resolution.
    • Similarly, the visual dynamics of cubo-futurist and expressionist designs also found their way into constructivist architecture. On the one hand, the dynamics consisted of unresolving the visual tensions between the component parts and […]1981, Kestutis Paul Zygas, Form follows form, page 77
    • […] remembered experience in QuickTime is often "bit-mapped" and "pixelated": boxed fragments of photorealist images are fragmented and compartmentalized further into smaller boxes yet, unresolving the personal meaning and contours of human memory and resolving them as the visible and controlled...2004, Lauren Rabinovitz, Abraham Geil, Memory Bytes: History, Technology, and Digital Culture, page 316

Forms of unresolve

third-person singular presentunresolves
present participleunresolving
past participleunresolved
pastunresolved

Origin of unresolve

From un- + resolve.

Words that rhyme with unresolve

16 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about unresolve

What does unresolve mean?
Unresolve means the lack of the quality of resolve.
What part of speech is unresolve?
Unresolve can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce unresolve?
Unresolve is pronounced /(ˌ)ʌn.ɹɪˈzɒlv/ (UK).

Words near unresolve in the dictionary

  1. unresolutely
  2. unresolvability
  3. unresolvable
  4. unresolvables
  5. unresolvably
  6. unresolve
  7. unresolved
  8. unresolvedly
  9. unresolvedness
  10. unresolves
  11. unresolving

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