uncontending
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]un- + contending
Adjective
[edit]uncontending (comparative more uncontending, superlative most uncontending)
- Not contending.
- 1885, John Ruskin, On the Old Road Vol. 1 (of 2)[1]:
- In him I see a strong human creature, contending with all hardship: in you also a human creature, uncontending, and possibly not strong.
- 1903, William Godwin, Caleb Williams[2]:
- His judgment was penetrating and manly, totally unmixed with imbecility and confusion, while at the same time there was such an uncontending frankness in his countenance, that a superficial observer would have supposed he must have been the prey of the first plausible knavery that was practised against him.