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unwarming

unwarming is the present participle and gerund of unwarm.

Meaning of unwarm

Verb

unwarm (third-person singular simple present unwarms, present participle unwarming, simple past and past participle unwarmed)

  1. To lose warmth; to grow cold.
    • With horrid chill each little heart unwarms.1826, Thomas Hood, “The Irish Schoolmaster”, in Whims and Oddities

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Adjective

unwarming (comparative more unwarming, superlative most unwarming)

  1. That does not warm.
    • a pale unwarming sunbeam

Forms of unwarming

comparativemore unwarming
superlativemost unwarming

Origin of unwarming

From unwarm + -ing.

From un- + warming.

Questions about unwarming

What does unwarming mean?
Unwarming means that does not warm.
What is unwarming the present participle and gerund of?
Unwarming is the present participle and gerund of unwarm.
What part of speech is unwarming?
Unwarming is an adjective.

Words near unwarming in the dictionary

  1. unwarlike
  2. unwarlikeness
  3. unwarm
  4. unwarmable
  5. unwarmed
  6. unwarming
  7. unwarms
  8. unwarnable
  9. unwarned
  10. unwarnedly
  11. unwarning

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unwarming (page history and authors); unwarm (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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