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unelating en · ADJ

Etymology

From un- + elating.

Meanings

1. Not inspiring elation.
   • But there is something unthrilling, unelating, passionless about Black and Blue: a good many commendable details, a great deal of savoir-faire (it comes to us from Paris, after all), but not much heart. 1989, New York, volume 22, page 8:
   • It was certainly unelating as an architectural composition; but then we know, by the story, that the plain pear is often the most luscious. 1906, Bernard Capes, A Rogue's Tragedy, page 117:

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