unstinted

English

WOTD – 8 September 2011

Etymology

From un- +‎ stinted.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʌnˈstɪn.tɪd/

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Adjective

unstinted (comparative more unstinted, superlative most unstinted)

1. Not constrained, not restrained, or not confined.
   • 1874, Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd, ch. 33:

     Mr. Coggan poured the liquor with unstinted liberality at the suffering Cain's circular mouth.

   • 1892, Rudyard Kipling, Letters of Travel, ch. 1:

     Wherever we went there was the sun, lavish and unstinted.

   • 1900, H. G. Wells, Love and Mr. Lewisham, ch. 31:

     You must have support and belief—unstinted support and belief.

   • 1921, P. G. Wodehouse, Indiscretions of Archie, ch. 24:

     The music-publisher had been unstinted in his praise.

   • 2005, Robert Hughes, "Art: American Renaissance Man," Time, 21 June:

     Augustus Saint-Gaudens . . .gave the crude, grabbing Republic its lessons in symbolic deportment and visual elocution, and won its unstinted gratitude.

Synonyms

• (not constrained): unconstrained, unrestrained

Related terms

• stint
• stinted
• unstinting
• unstintingly

Translations

not constrained, not restrained, or not confined

• Armenian: անսահման (hy) (ansahman), անչափ (hy) (ančʻapʻ), անկոպար (hy) (ankopar)
• Danish: uindskrænket, forbeholdsløs, ureserveret, uhæmmet
• Finnish: rajoittamaton (fi), rajaton (fi)
• German: uneingeschränkt (de)
• Maori: rikarika
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: uinnskrenket, forbeholdsløs

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• Russian: безграни́чный (ru) (bezgraníčnyj), безмерный (ru) (bezmernyj)
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• Swedish: förbehållslös, oreserverad, ohämmad (sv), oinskränkt (sv)