unarriving

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adjective

That does not arrive.

OriginEnglish arriving ← Middle English un- ← Old English un- →
Scrabble 14
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Meanings

adjectiveunarriving (not comparable)
  1. not comparableThat does not arrive.

    The dissolution of the authority of the past and the present in favour of an endlessly anticipated, but unarriving futurity links prediction to redundancy in the novel.

    2008, Steven Connor, The English Novel in History, 1950 to the Present, page 40

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*né
  2. Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
  3. Proto-Germanic*un-
  4. Proto-West Germanic*un-
  5. Old Englishun-
  6. Middle Englishun-
  7. Englishun-
  8. Englisharriving
  9. Englishunarriving

From un- + arriving.

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Cite this entry
APA

unarriving. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unarriving

MLA

“unarriving.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unarriving. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unarriving,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unarriving.

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