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unsustaining

unsustaining adjective: that does not sustain.

Adjective

unsustaining (comparative more unsustaining, superlative most unsustaining)

  1. That does not sustain.
    • unsustaining food
    • It also entailed well-documented disadvantages: a population increase in an unsustaining economy, a battered self-identity, a plague of substance abuse.2009 July 24, Holland Cotter, “Postcards From Canada’s ‘New North’”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 06 May 2021

Forms of unsustaining

comparativemore unsustaining
superlativemost unsustaining

Origin of unsustaining

From un- + sustaining.

Questions about unsustaining

What does unsustaining mean?
Unsustaining means that does not sustain.
What part of speech is unsustaining?
Unsustaining is an adjective.

Words near unsustaining in the dictionary

  1. unsustainability
  2. unsustainable
  3. unsustainables
  4. unsustainably
  5. unsustained
  6. unsustaining
  7. unsuturable
  8. unsutured
  9. unsvelte
  10. UNSW
  11. unswabbed

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