ungiving en · ADJ
Etymology
From un- + giving.
Meanings
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Not giving; ungenerous.
And yet it was clear, even as he was nearly drowning there in the North Atlantic, that in the other place there would be no objects whatsoever: that this miserable orange flotation device through which he’d stuck his arm, this fundamentally inscrutable and ungiving fabric-clad hunk of foam, would be a GOD in the objectless world of death toward which he was headed, would be the SUPREME I-AM-WHAT-I-AM in that universe of unbeing.
2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| most ungiving | Degree=Sup | lexicographic | |
| more ungiving | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic |