unenjoying

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adjective

Not gaining enjoyment.

Scrabble 21

Meanings

adjectiveunenjoying (comparative more unenjoying, superlative most unenjoying)

comparative more unenjoying · superlative most unenjoying

  1. Not gaining enjoyment.

    The coachman was used to drive his grays at a good pace, Mr Casaubon being unenjoying and impatient in everything away from his desk, and wanting to get to the end of all journeys; and Dorothea was now bowled along quickly.

    1871–1872, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], Middlemarch […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book (please specify |book=I to VIII)
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    She is one of our outcasts; a common prostitute, who obtains from the wages of promiscuous intercourse her daily bread; who sells for hire, in unenjoying prostitution, the feminine embraces given by Nature for mutual solace and endearment.

    1823, Henry Horne, The Citizen of Nature

Origin

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APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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