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PRONUNCIATION OF UNILLUMINATING

unilluminating  [ˌʌnɪˈluːmɪneɪtɪŋ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF UNILLUMINATING

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Unilluminating is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES UNILLUMINATING MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of unilluminating in the English dictionary

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WORDS THAT RHYME WITH UNILLUMINATING


alternating
ˈɔːltəˌneɪtɪŋ
calculating
ˈkælkjʊˌleɪtɪŋ
communicating
kəˈmjuːnɪˌkeɪtɪŋ
culminating
ˈkʌlmɪneɪtɪŋ
dating
ˈdeɪtɪŋ
decorating
ˈdɛkəˌreɪtɪŋ
discriminating
dɪˈskrɪmɪˌneɪtɪŋ
dominating
ˈdɒmɪˌneɪtɪŋ
fascinating
ˈfæsɪˌneɪtɪŋ
illuminating
ɪˈluːmɪˌneɪtɪŋ
incorporating
ɪnˈkɔːpəˌreɪtɪŋ
incriminating
ɪnˈkrɪmɪˌneɪtɪŋ
nonterminating
nɒnˈtɜːmɪˌneɪtɪŋ
operating
ˈɒpəreɪtɪŋ
rating
ˈreɪtɪŋ
rejuvenating
rɪˈdʒuːvəneɪtɪŋ
rotating
rəʊˈteɪtɪŋ
skating
ˈskeɪtɪŋ
undiscriminating
ˌʌndɪsˈkrɪmɪneɪtɪŋ
waiting
ˈweɪtɪŋ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE UNILLUMINATING

unilateral disarmament
unilateral neglect
unilateral nuclear disarmament
unilateralism
unilateralist
unilaterality
unilaterally
unilinear
unilingual
unilingualism
unilingualist
uniliteral
unillumed
unilluminated
unillumined
unillusioned
unillustrated
unilobar
unilobular
unilocular

WORDS THAT END LIKE UNILLUMINATING

accommodating
accounting
beating
boating
cheating
coating
devastating
eating
floating
frustrating
heating
humiliating
mating
oscillating
overheating
penetrating
repeating
seating
star rating
stimulating
vibrating

Synonyms and antonyms of unilluminating in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «unilluminating» into 25 languages

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Translator English - Chinese

unilluminating
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

unilluminating
570 millions of speakers

English

unilluminating
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

unilluminating
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

unilluminating
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

unilluminating
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

unilluminating
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

unilluminating
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

unilluminating
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Unilluminating
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

unilluminating
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

unilluminating
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

unilluminating
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Unilluminating
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

unilluminating
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

unilluminating
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अनिलमुयन्टींग
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

unilluminating
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

unilluminating
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

unilluminating
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

unilluminating
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

unilluminating
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

unilluminating
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

unilluminating
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

unilluminating
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

unilluminating
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of unilluminating

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «UNILLUMINATING»

The term «unilluminating» is used very little and occupies the 179.421 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «UNILLUMINATING» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about unilluminating

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «UNILLUMINATING»

Discover the use of unilluminating in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to unilluminating and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The End of Literary Theory
the attempt to characterize the types of inferential routes relevant to literary understanding, one might start off with an assumption that there is a distinction between illuminating and unilluminating criticism which is, at least in part, based on ...
Stein Haugom Olsen, 1987
2
Roots of Cataclysm: Geopulsation and the Atlantis ...
Unilluminating. Litany. All attempts so far to account for the waxing and waning of the continental ice and the associated mountain glaciers (in the Alps, Andes, etc.) have fallen well short of full success. Typically, sequential theories attain a ...
Richard W. Welch, 2009
3
Consciousness and Qualia
First, one can challenge the monistic account of how qualia are had on the most basic level and claim that it is unilluminating. One can say that it remains unintelligible why having qualia in the manner outlined by monism results in its being ...
Leopold Stubenberg, 1998
4
Illocutionary Acts and Sentence Meaning
Unilluminating answers include the following. 1 . The expression means something. 2. The expression has a semantic rule attached to it. 3. An adequate semantic description of the language provides at least one entry for the expression in ...
William P. Alston, 2000
5
Well-Being and Fair Distribution: Beyond Cost-Benefit Analysis
Critics of a secondary-quality account of moral facts argue that such accounts are viciously circular or, at the very least, unilluminating. Proponents of such accounts argue that there is no vicious circularity; that it is impossible to provide an ...
Matthew Adler, 2012
6
Contemporary Debates in Epistemology
In particular, any attempt to understand justification relative to the knowledge— goal would invert the explanatory direction and would make the whole approach circular and entirely unilluminating. After all, knowledge was supposed to be ...
Matthias Steup, John Turri, Ernest Sosa, 2013
7
Probabilities, Laws, and Structures
In the first case – that is if the project is conceptually read – manipulationism turns out to be unilluminating as to the methods to use for causal assessment. In the second case – that is if the project is methodologically read – then a second ...
Dennis Dieks, Wenceslao J. Gonzalez, Stephan Hartmann, 2012
8
The Good Mother
unilluminating,. unsatisfying. This. fable. of. punishment. is. fundamentally. depressed. and. inexpressive. . ." THERE'S A CERTAIN POINT AT WHICH A novelist of high intelligence becomes witty even when his aim couldn't be further from ...
9
Natural Laws in Scientific Practice
So an appeal to natural necessity either is explanatorily unilluminating— as empty as using "dormitive virtue" to explain why opium is soporific— or else requires a substantial account of what natural necessity is. The trouble with this approach ...
Chapel Hill Marc Lange Professor of Philosophy University of North Carolina, 2000
10
Social and Political Philosophy
It is unilluminating because we seem to require the idea of punishment to explain what it is for something to be a crime or an offense. Suppose, that is, that we wanted to decide whether a particular way of behaving was a crime or an offense  ...
Peter A. French, Theodore Edward Uehling, Howard K. Wettstein, 1982

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «UNILLUMINATING»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term unilluminating is used in the context of the following news items.
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Employee Or Independent Contractor? US Department Of Labor …
The FLSA's definition of “employer” is similarly unilluminating: “employer” “includes any person acting directly or indirectly in the interest of an employer in ... «The National Law Review, Jul 15»
2
How CIA really works (or doesn't) and whose actually in charge …
The Washington memoir is usually a boring and unilluminating literary genre. But the newly published book, “The Great War of Our Time,” written by Michael ... «Fox News, May 15»
3
The glummest BBC Proms launch in three decades
It was dreary, flat and unilluminating, adding nothing to the sum of public entertainment. The cringing intensified. Edward Blakeman, who programmed the 2015 ... «Slipped Disc, Apr 15»
4
Depardieu's 'Welcome to New York' is a boring retelling
Grunting and boarlike, Gérard Depardieu supplies a one-note rendition of Dominique Strauss-Kahn in Abel Ferrara's peculiarly unilluminating “Welcome to New ... «New York Post, Mar 15»
5
Super Bowl 2015: Marshawn Lynch keen to tell world that he is just …
... media obligations imposed by the league, paid lip service to those requirements with a brief and unilluminating appearance in a bid to avert further sanctions. «Telegraph.co.uk, Jan 15»
6
Defamatory Selma
The best response to the charges I've read is this Amy Davis piece — while Davis introduces her analysis with the largely unilluminating angle of “Selma is ... «National Review Online, Jan 15»
7
La Maison de la Radio
... a bland, collage-like and unilluminating portrayal of the Paris-based Radio France and the seven stations it runs, but the benefit of the doubt disintegrates after ... «The Arts Desk, Jan 15»
8
Theatre review: Softly Pouting While Walking Into Breezes
Admittedly, for every witticism or sharply rendered foible, there's a moment of gaucheness, sentimentality or unilluminating cliche, and of all the skills this young ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Jan 15»
9
DAILY MAIL COMMENT: A dismal glimpse of the months to come
It will also be one of the most unilluminating and dishonest. Have five (yes, five) Tory Cabinet ministers nothing more pressing to do, amid all the country's ... «Daily Mail, Jan 15»
10
How Will Voting Litigation Affect the Upcoming Elections?
Although the Court's one-page order was unilluminating, a possible reason for its decision can be gleamed from the dissent filed by Justice Alito (and joined by ... «National Review Online, Oct 14»

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