unpropitiative

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

un- +‎ propitiative

Adjective[edit]

unpropitiative (comparative more unpropitiative, superlative most unpropitiative)

  1. Not propitiative.
    • 1845?, William Gilmore Simms, Life in America: Or, The Wigwam and the Cabin (page 296)
      She is considered, however, an advantageous speculation; but, notwithstanding she came in for her share of the contingent spoils, no inconsiderable trifle for a country practitioner of law, Black was surly and unpropitiative.
    • 1887, Epoch, volume 2, page 268:
      All her outward serenity, so unpropitiative and inexorable, had only veiled—even as his own wild ways had veiled—a misery perhaps more complete than his own.