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untemporary

untemporary adjective: not temporary.

Adjective

untemporary

  1. Not temporary.
    • That kind of “escapism” seems to them to be dangerously untemporary, even though the reader must still return through the portal that is the book.2009, Brian Stableford, The A to Z of Fantasy Literature, page lvii

Origin of untemporary

From un- + temporary.

Questions about untemporary

What does untemporary mean?
Untemporary means not temporary.
What part of speech is untemporary?
Untemporary is an adjective.

Words near untemporary in the dictionary

  1. untempested
  2. untempestuous
  3. untemplated
  4. untempled
  5. untemporal
  6. untemporary
  7. untemporizing
  8. untempred
  9. untemptability
  10. untemptable
  11. untemptably

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