Meanings
comparative more inappreciative · superlative most inappreciative
- unappreciative.
[…] he found Mr. Poulter, with a fixed and earnest eye, wasting the perfections of his sword-exercise on probably observant but inappreciative rats.
1860, George Eliot, Mill on the Floss, Book II, Chapter IV1 more example
She was the support and the terror of the pastor, punctual at meeting and critical of the girls in the choir and the pastor's wife's clothes, mighty in making flannels for the poor but inappreciative of their adulteries […]
1949, Sinclair Lewis, chapter 31, in The God-Seeker, New York: Popular Library, pages 171–2
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*né
- Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
- Proto-Italic*n̥-
- Latinin-
- Middle Englishin-
- Englishin-
- Englishappreciate
- Englishappreciative
- Englishinappreciative
From in- + appreciative.
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
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