unsustaining

English

Etymology

un- +‎ sustaining

Adjective

unsustaining (comparative more unsustaining, superlative most unsustaining)

1. That does not sustain.

   unsustaining food

   • 2009 July 24, Holland Cotter, “Postcards From Canada’s ‘New North’”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     It also entailed well-documented disadvantages: a population increase in an unsustaining economy, a battered self-identity, a plague of substance abuse.