unrequiring

comparative more unrequiring · superlative most unrequiring

1. Not requiring anything; undemanding.

   Moreover, the Sultan is the simplest and most unrequiring man in his dominions.

   1894, Theodore Ayrault Dodge, Riders of Many Lands, page 389

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   If you did but know how easily we are satisfied, and what simple, unrequiring visitors we are, you would make no difficulty of lodging us.

   1851, The Fair Carew, Or, Husbands and Wives, volume II, page 235

   In great things he was simple and unrequiring, but he had a thousand small peculiarities; for instance, when travelling, he always wore a quantity of coats for the sake of the pockets he had got made in them.

   1859, Clemens Theodor Perthes, Life and Times of Frederick Perthes, page 377

   Two pairs of eyes were regarding her—Rutherford's noncommittal and unrequiring, Michael's hungry, tragic, pleading.

   1930 August 9, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, “The Bridal Party”, in Matthew J[oseph] Bruccoli, editor, The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1st Scribner trade paperback edition, New York, N.Y.: Scribner, published 2003, →ISBN, page 572

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of unrequire