unpropitiative

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adjective

Not propitiative.

Scrabble 21

Meanings

adjectiveunpropitiative (comparative more unpropitiative, superlative most unpropitiative)

comparative more unpropitiative · superlative most unpropitiative

  1. Not propitiative.

    All her outward serenity, so unpropitiative and inexorable, had only veiled—even as his own wild ways had veiled—a misery perhaps more complete than his own.

    1887, Epoch, volume 2, page 268
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    She is considered, however, an advantageous speculation; but, notwithstanding she came in for her share of the contingent spoils, no inconsiderable trifle for a country practitioner of law, Black was surly and unpropitiative.

    1845?, William Gilmore Simms, Life in America: Or, The Wigwam and the Cabin (page 296)

Origin

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APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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