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Meaning of "unnourishing" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF UNNOURISHING

unnourishing  [ʌnˈnʌrɪʃɪŋ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF UNNOURISHING

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

WHAT DOES UNNOURISHING MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of unnourishing in the English dictionary

The definition of unnourishing in the dictionary is not providing nourishment.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH UNNOURISHING


astonishing
əˈstɒnɪʃɪŋ
diminishing
dɪˈmɪnɪʃɪŋ
distinguishing
dɪsˈtɪŋɡwɪʃɪŋ
finishing
ˈfɪnɪʃɪŋ
fishing
ˈfɪʃɪŋ
flourishing
ˈflʌrɪʃɪŋ
fly-fishing
ˈflaɪˌfɪʃɪŋ
languishing
ˈlæŋɡwɪʃɪŋ
nourishing
ˈnʌrɪʃɪŋ
overfishing
ˌəʊvəˈfɪʃɪŋ
perishing
ˈpɛrɪʃɪŋ
phishing
ˈfɪʃɪŋ
photofinishing
ˌfəʊtəʊˈfɪnɪʃɪŋ
publishing
ˈpʌblɪʃɪŋ
punishing
ˈpʌnɪʃɪŋ
ravishing
ˈrævɪʃɪŋ
refurbishing
riːˈfɜːbɪʃɪŋ
sportfishing
ˈspɔːtˌfɪʃɪŋ
unperishing
ʌnˈpɛrɪʃɪŋ
well-wishing
ˈwelˌwɪʃɪŋ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE UNNOURISHING

unnervingly
unnest
unnetted
unneurotic
unnewsworthy
unnilhexium
unnilpentium
unnilquadium
unnilseptium
unnoble
unnoisy
unnoted
unnoticeable
unnoticeably
unnoticed
unnoticing
unnourished
unnuanced
unnumbered
unnurtured

WORDS THAT END LIKE UNNOURISHING

anything
blushing
bushing
crashing
crushing
Cushing
dashing
desktop publishing
flashing
flushing
gushing
ice fishing
lashing
Pershing
pushing
refreshing
slashing
smashing
thrashing
trout fishing
washing

Synonyms and antonyms of unnourishing in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «unnourishing» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF UNNOURISHING

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The translations of unnourishing from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «unnourishing» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

unnourishing
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

unnourishing
570 millions of speakers

English

unnourishing
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

unnourishing
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

unnourishing
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

unnourishing
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

unnourishing
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

unnourishing
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

unnourishing
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tidak sihat
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

unnourishing
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

unnourishing
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

unnourishing
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Ora sehat
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

unnourishing
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

unnourishing
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

निरोगी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

unnourishing
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

unnourishing
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

unnourishing
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

unnourishing
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

unnourishing
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

unnourishing
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

unnourishing
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

unnourishing
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

unnourishing
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of unnourishing

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «UNNOURISHING»

The term «unnourishing» is normally little used and occupies the 151.004 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «UNNOURISHING» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «unnourishing» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «unnourishing» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «UNNOURISHING»

Discover the use of unnourishing in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to unnourishing and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Anxious Power: Reading, Writing, and Ambivalence in ...
Like the person who gets fat because they eat unnourishing foods and so is always hungry and so is always eating, she drowned in words that could not teach her to swim" (29). Atwood in Lady Oracle and Fay Weldon in The Fat Woman's ...
Carol J. Singley, Susan Elizabeth Sweeney, 1993
2
Failures of vegetarianism
It is generally thought that " Vegetarian " foods have vegetables as their most important part, and hence that " Vegetarian " diet is unnourishing and indigestible . People forget that there are such things as nuts, and nut-mills, and cheese, and  ...
Eustace Hamilton Miles, 1902
3
The Cinema of Steven Soderbergh: Indie Sex, Corporate Lies, ...
As Variety succinctly summarises, 'It's the most high-end junk food imaginable, completely unnourishing and forgettable afterward, but delicious and all but impossible not to enjoy while it's in front of you.'45 To consider the franchise ...
Andrew deWaard, R. Colin Tait, 2013
4
The Adolescent Experience
Young people wither just as quickly in unhappy and unnourishing nuclear families as in unhappy and unnourishing divorced or remarried families. We will admit that young people prosper more readily in a nuclear family untouched by severe ...
Thomas P. Gullotta, Gerald R. Adams, Carol A. Markstrom, 1999
5
The why of Music: Dialogues in an Unexplored Region of ...
F. Grossly, as a sort of biological function, I suppose it discriminates the edible from the inedible — or possibly the nourishing from the unnourishing, for the obviously unnourishing would hardly be tasted. But although you might experiment, ...
Donald Nivison Ferguson, 1969
6
Reading and comprehension academically speaking. How to find ...
It is the same position that considers a literary landscape as superior to a movie travelogue. For the untrained awareness, all reading and all movies, like all travel , are equally banal and unnourishing as experience. Difficulty of access does not  ...
Margaret Percy, 2005
7
Changing the Story: Feminist Fiction and the Tradition
Like the person who gets fat because they eat unnourishing foods and so is always hungry and so is always eating, she drowned in words that could not teach her to swim."50 Atwood in Lady Oracle and Fay Weldon in The Fat Woman's Joke ...
Gayle Greene, 1992
8
Too Scared to Learn: Overcoming Academic Anxiety
Overcoming Academic Anxiety Cara L. Garcia. resource d: Comparison of Mental Metabolism With Nourishing and Unnourishing Physical Metabolism REFERENCES Anderson, J. R. (1976). Language, memory and thought. Hillsdale, 135.
Cara L. Garcia, 1998
9
The River War
Yet he who had not seen the desert or felt the sun heavily on his shoulders would hardly admire the fertility of the riparian scrub.
Winston J Churchill, Winston S. Churchill, 2004
10
The Privacy of the Self
clinical picture of their subjective experience of themselves and their environment as bleak and unnourishing, was contradictory to all that one had been led to expect from their manner of living. In the course of the treatment it became ...
Masud Khan, 2011

8 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «UNNOURISHING»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term unnourishing is used in the context of the following news items.
1
False Enlightenment at the Court
However, the undigestible and unnourishing detritus of a meal is no longer bread, but feces, and therefore no longer food. The nature of something is a reflexive ... «First Things, Jul 15»
2
Is Google Killing Wonder?
The effortless availability of information becomes akin to fast food for the mind: readily obtained, immediately gratifying, but ultimately unnourishing. What are the ... «Huffington Post, May 15»
3
DVDs and downloads: Gone Girl, Maps to the Stars, The Face of …
... though, after a cinematic year sufficiently starved for mainstream women's stories to see David Fincher's sleek, stainless, mostly unnourishing Gone Girl (Fox, ... «The Guardian, Feb 15»
4
The Arab Spring is just a preview of future revolutions
However, the Arab revolutions represent an unnourishing meal packaged in a flimsy plastic box, eaten by people to fill their stomachs, either for economic ... «Middle East Monitor, Nov 14»
5
Film Review: 'Badges of Fury'
... with multiple star cameos the icing on this unnourishing cake. Pic opened strong domestically before being overshadowed by “Man of Steel,” and should have ... «Variety, Jun 13»
6
'The Woman Who Could Not Forget'
I wished an editor had helped Ying-Ying excise more of this material, which adds unnourishing bulk. One of the book's most intriguing sections recounts the ... «San Francisco Chronicle, May 11»
7
The hysteric moment
Eggers and Wallace were practitioners of something he called "hysterical realism" and their novels burned brightly with an unnourishing sub-Dickensian dazzle. «New Statesman, Dec 09»
8
A CRITICAL HISTORY OF 20TH-CENTURY ART
... as in the chaotic Untitled (Rope Piece); death as a threat to the body, as in the emaciated Ishtar, with her unnourishing, stringy breasts; death as a persistently ... «Artnet, Jul 06»

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