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unwincing

unwincing adjective: not wincing, showing no sign of pain or discomfort.

Adjective

unwincing (not comparable)

  1. (figuratively) Not wincing, showing no sign of pain or discomfort.
    • So she sat almost motionless for hours in the drawing-room, going over the bitterness of every remembrance with an unwincing resolution.1855, Elizabeth Gaskell, chapter 41, in North and South
    • There the man sat, straight as a totem pole and as unwincing, while rain-squalls belabored his bare head and sweatered body.1932, Barrett Willoughby, “8, 1”, in Spawn of the North, New York: Grosset & Dunlap

Origin of unwincing

From un- + wincing.

Words formed from unwincing

Questions about unwincing

What does unwincing mean?
Unwincing means not wincing, showing no sign of pain or discomfort.
What part of speech is unwincing?
Unwincing is an adjective.

Words near unwincing in the dictionary

  1. Unwin
  2. unwinch
  3. unwinched
  4. unwinches
  5. unwinching
  6. unwincing
  7. unwincingly
  8. unwind
  9. unwindable
  10. unwindase
  11. unwindases

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