Meanings
comparative more unloving · superlative most unloving
- Not loving.
The negative belief is always more petty, self-serving, unallowing, resistant, fearful, and unloving.
2014, Sean Morgan, Tracy Phillips, Mastery of Change1 more example
Every year between six and eight million parents desert their children; two to three million teenagers run away from typically unloving homes.
1977 April 30, Louie Crew, “Expelling the Genital Exchequers from the Temple”, in Gay Community News, page 5
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of unlove
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivenot giving or reciprocating affection
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*né
- Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
- Proto-Germanic*un-
- Proto-West Germanic*un-
- Old Englishun-
- Middle Englishun-
- Englishun-
- Englishloving
- Englishunloving
Cite this entry
unloving. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unloving
“unloving.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unloving. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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