unindustrious

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adjective

Not industrious.

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Meanings

adjectiveunindustrious (comparative more unindustrious, superlative most unindustrious)

comparative more unindustrious · superlative most unindustrious

  1. Not industrious.

    Like a lot of young journalism school graduates then and now, I had come to see political journalism as a lesser form of the craft, populated mostly by the effete and the unindustrious, while the real reporters were out there braving crack corners and foreign wars.

    2007 November 11, Matt Bai, “See How They Ran”, in New York Times

Origin

From un- + industrious.

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APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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