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unloving en · ADJ

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English loving English unloving From un- + loving.

Meanings

  1. Not loving.
    • The negative belief is always more petty, self-serving, unallowing, resistant, fearful, and unloving. 2014, Sean Morgan, Tracy Phillips, Mastery of Change:
    • Every year between six and eight million parents desert their children; two to three million teenagers run away from typically unloving homes. 1977 April 30, Louie Crew, “Expelling the Genital Exchequers from the Temple”, in Gay Community News, page 5:

Forms

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

Deriveds

unlovingly · unlovingness

unloving en · VERB

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English loving English unloving From un- + loving.

Meanings

  1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of unlove
    form of unlove