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unbuying

adjective

Not making purchases.

Scrabble 14

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Meanings

adjectiveunbuying (not comparable)

not comparableNot making purchases.
Consider that one third of the whole are the miserably poor, unbuying blacks.
1885, Alexander Johnston, The Anti-Slavery Struggle, page 228
1 more example
[…] to be cheap, cheap, cheap, so as to open a market far away among the unbuying crowd hidden away in the dust holes of our country.
1975, John Greenleaf Whittier, John B. Pickard, The Letters, page 136

Origin

From un- + buying.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with unbuying

trying buying flying applying dying lying crying drying denying spying tying complying implying frying dyeing defying vying undying prying sighing plying scrying decrying retrying

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APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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