uninferant

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adjective

Not implying or supporting an inference.

Scrabble 13

Meanings

adjectiveuninferant (comparative more uninferant, superlative most uninferant)

comparative more uninferant · superlative most uninferant

  1. Not implying or supporting an inference.

    We go on, with a motion so soporific, so dreamlike as to be uninferant of progress, as though time and not space were decreasing between us and it.

    1930, William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying, Library of America, published 1985, page 69
    2 more examples

    riders horses bison beating on soporific wings through the high dry air their close-ranked bodies blotting out the earth so as to be uninferant of progress except that the hooves beneath them jolted on the solid ground

    1975, David Williams, The Burning Wood, page 146

    From the cot on which he lay uninferant of what might lie ahead in eternal afterlife he watched three pigs poke moist pink slimy snouts obscenely through the warped slats

    2020, Kirk Curnutt, “The Snopes of Kilimanjaro”, in Studies in the American Short Story, volume 1, number 1

Origin

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APA

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Chicago

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