unpronouncing

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adjective

That does not pronounce, or does not pronounce clearly.

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Meanings

adjectiveunpronouncing (not comparable)
  1. not comparableThat does not pronounce, or does not pronounce clearly.

    […] she had one of those peculiarly English unpronouncing voices, which gave one the idea of her throat being lined with fleecy hosiery, […]

    1851, Rosina Doyle Bulwer-Lytton, Miriam Sedley; or, The tares and the wheat, volume 173, page 300
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    Here we have a thought and its full expression in the sentence "mice eat cheese." Can you not do with this pronouncing form of the sentence all that Mr. Farnham has described as being done with the other unpronouncing form of it? You can go from the thought and sentence to the idea and spoken word cheese and its printed orthographic form […]

    1873, National Education Association of the United States, Addresses and Proceedings, page 213

Origin

From un- + pronouncing.

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APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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