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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

unenjoying en · ADJ

Etymology

From un- + enjoying.

Meanings

  1. Not gaining enjoyment.
    • She is one of our outcasts; a common prostitute, who obtains from the wages of promiscuous intercourse her daily bread; who sells for hire, in unenjoying prostitution, the feminine embraces given by Nature for mutual solace and endearment. 1823, Henry Horne, The Citizen of Nature:
    • The coachman was used to drive his grays at a good pace, Mr Casaubon being unenjoying and impatient in everything away from his desk, and wanting to get to the end of all journeys; and Dorothea was now bowled along quickly. 1871–1872, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], Middlemarch […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book (please specify |book=I to VIII):

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
more unenjoying Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most unenjoying Degree=Sup lexicographic

Deriveds

unenjoyingly