unenlivening

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

un- +‎ enlivening

Adjective[edit]

unenlivening (comparative more unenlivening, superlative most unenlivening)

  1. Not enlivening.
    • 1877, Bret Harte, The Story of a Mine[1]:
      There were books with dreary, unenlivening titles,--egotistic always, as recording Smith's opinions on this, and Jones's commentaries on that.
    • 1904, Elizabeth Robins (C. E. Raimond), The Magnetic North[2]:
      These unenlivening calculations were catching.