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unsupporting

unsupporting adjective: that serves no supporting purpose in a structure.

Adjective

unsupporting (not comparable)

  1. That serves no supporting purpose in a structure.
    • The calculated shearing stress on the adjoining and unsupporting strata...1935, Bulletin of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists
  2. Unsupportive.
    • The table is deliberately confined to three of the factors, namely lack of intellectual ability, unsupporting home background, and personal factors.1965, Reginald R Dale, Stephen Griffith, Down Stream: Failure in the Grammar School

Origin of unsupporting

From un- + supporting.

Questions about unsupporting

What does unsupporting mean?
Unsupporting means that serves no supporting purpose in a structure.
What part of speech is unsupporting?
Unsupporting is an adjective.

Words near unsupporting in the dictionary

  1. unsupportableness
  2. unsupportably
  3. unsupported
  4. unsupportedly
  5. unsupportedness
  6. unsupporting
  7. unsupportive
  8. unsupportively
  9. unsupportiveness
  10. unsupposable
  11. unsupposed

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