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unswinging

unswinging is the present participle and gerund of unswing.

Meaning of unswing

Verb

unswing (third-person singular simple present unswings, present participle unswinging, simple past and past participle unswung)

  1. (transitive) To reverse the act of swinging.
    • He watched the crew unswing the boat, get in, and leave the Bessie.1887, Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Arts

Adjective

unswinging (comparative more unswinging, superlative most unswinging)

  1. Not swinging.

Forms of unswinging

comparativemore unswinging
superlativemost unswinging

Questions about unswinging

What does unswinging mean?
Unswinging means not swinging.
What is unswinging the present participle and gerund of?
Unswinging is the present participle and gerund of unswing.
What part of speech is unswinging?
Unswinging is an adjective.

Words near unswinging in the dictionary

  1. unswervingly
  2. unswervingness
  3. unswilled
  4. unswimmable
  5. unswing
  6. unswinging
  7. unswingled
  8. unswings
  9. unswiped
  10. unswirl
  11. unswirled

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unswinging (page history and authors); unswing (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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