unsustaining

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adjective

That does not sustain.

“unsustaining food”

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Meanings

adjectiveunsustaining (comparative more unsustaining, superlative most unsustaining)

comparative more unsustaining · superlative most unsustaining

  1. That does not sustain.

    unsustaining food

    1 more example

    It also entailed well-documented disadvantages: a population increase in an unsustaining economy, a battered self-identity, a plague of substance abuse.

    2009 July 24, Holland Cotter, “Postcards From Canada’s ‘New North’”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 06 May 2021

Origin

From un- + sustaining.

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Cite this entry
APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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