unattempting

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adjective

Not making an attempt.

Scrabble 17

Meanings

adjectiveunattempting (not comparable)
  1. not comparableNot making an attempt.

    Garvin added: 'Mind you true tragedy, supreme tragedy are not the worst in life, far from it: the squalid morass of unattempting impotence is the stifling of the soul and hope of man. […]

    quoted in 2015, Martin Gilbert, Winston S. Churchill: The Prophet of Truth, 1922–1939

Origin

Cite this entry
APA

unattempting. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unattempting

MLA

“unattempting.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unattempting. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unattempting,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unattempting.

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