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unrewarding

unrewarding adjective: not providing reward or satisfaction.

Adjective

unrewarding (comparative more unrewarding, superlative most unrewarding)

  1. Not providing reward or satisfaction.
    • The work is unrewarding and arduous but nevertheless of prime importance to the maintenance of an open line.1960 January, M. Harbottle, “Maintaining Services after Heavy Snowfalls”, in Railway Magazine, page 11

Forms of unrewarding

comparativemore unrewarding
superlativemost unrewarding

Origin of unrewarding

From un- + rewarding.

Words formed from unrewarding

Questions about unrewarding

What does unrewarding mean?
Unrewarding means not providing reward or satisfaction.
What part of speech is unrewarding?
Unrewarding is an adjective.

Words near unrewarding in the dictionary

  1. unrevolved
  2. unrevolving
  3. unrewardable
  4. unrewarded
  5. unrewardedly
  6. unrewarding
  7. unrewardingly
  8. unrewardingness
  9. unreworked
  10. unrewound
  11. unrhapsodic

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