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unteeming en · ADJ

Etymology

From un- + teeming.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) That does not teem.
    • Usually, though, the light days in the water were unbiological, unteeming times. 2016, Charles Foster, Being a Beast:
    • What is Death / But Life in act? How should the Unteeming Grave / Be victor over thee, / Mother, a mother of men? 1926, Henley William Ernest, Poems, page 116:
  2. (not-comparable, obsolete) Barren; infertile.
    • the unteeming womb