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un·pre·tend·ing /ˌʌnprɪˈtɛndɪŋ/
(a.)不虛裝門面的,不矜持的,謙遜的
Unaccommodating See accommodating.
Unaching See aching.
Unailing See ailing.
Unaiming See aiming.
Unalarming See alarming.
Unaltering See altering.
Unappreciating See appreciating.
Unapproving See approving.
Unaspiring See aspiring.
Unassisting See assisting.
Unattempting See attempting.
Unattending See attending.
Unbearing See bearing.
Unbefitting See befitting.
Unbeginning See beginning.
Unbelieving See believing.
Unbleaching See bleaching.
Unbleeding See bleeding.
Unblemishing See blemishing.
Unblenching See blenching.
Unblossoming See blossoming.
Unblushing See blushing.
Unboding See boding.
Unbranching See branching.
Unbreathing See breathing.
Unburning See burning.
Uncalculating See calculating.
Unceasing See ceasing.
Unchanging See changing.
Uncharming See charming.
Uncommunicating See communicating.
Uncomplaining See complaining.
Uncomplying See complying.
Unconceiving See conceiving.
Unconducing See conducing.
Unconfessing See confessing.
Unconniving See conniving.
Unconsenting See consenting.
Unconsidering See considering.
Unconspiring See conspiring.
Unconsulting See consulting.
Unconsuming See consuming.
Uncontending See contending.
Uncontriving See contriving.
Unconversing See conversing.
Unconvincing See convincing.
Undawning See dawning.
Undecaying See decaying.
Undelaying See delaying.
Undepending See depending.
Underogating See derogating.
Undeserving See deserving.
Undesiring See desiring.
Undespairing See despairing.
Undetesting See detesting.
Undeviating See deviating.
Undifferencing See differencing.
Undiscerning See discerning.
Undiscording See discording.
Undiscriminating See discriminating.
Undisobliging See disobliging.
Undispensing See dispensing.
Undissembling See dissembling.
Undissolving See dissolving.
Undistinguishing See distinguishing.
Undistracting See distracting.
Undisturbing See disturbing.
Undoubting See doubting.
Undreading See dreading.
Undrooping See drooping.
Unebbing See ebbing.
Unechoing See echoing.
Unedifying See edifying.
Unending See ending.
Unenduring See enduring.
Unengaging See engaging.
Unenjoying See enjoying.
Unentering See entering.
Unenterprising See enterprising.
Unentertaining See entertaining.
Unenvying See envying.
Unexisting See existing.
Unfadging See fadging.
Unfading See fading.
Unfainting See fainting.
Unfaltering See faltering.
Unfearing See fearing.
Unfeigning See feigning.
Unfighting See fighting.
Unfitting See fitting.
Unflagging See flagging.
Unflattering See flattering.
Unflinching See flinching.
Unfolding See folding.
Unforbearing See forbearing.
Unforeboding See foreboding.
Unforeseeing See foreseeing.
Unforgiving See forgiving.
Ungiving See giving.
Ungrudging See grudging.
Unharming See harming.
Unheeding See heeding.
Unhesitating See hesitating.
Unhoping See hoping.
Unhurting See hurting.
Unimporting See importing.
Unimposing See imposing.
Unimproving See improving.
Uninteresting See interesting.
Unintermitting See intermitting.
Unintoxicating See intoxicating.
Uninviting See inviting.
Unjarring See jarring.
Unlaboring See laboring.
Unlingering See lingering.
Unlistening See listening.
Unloving See loving.
Unmeddling See meddling.
Unmeriting See meriting.
Unmistrusting See mistrusting.
Unmoving See moving.
Unmurmuring See murmuring.
Unobliging See obliging.
Unobserving See observing.
Unoffending See offending.
Unopening See opening.
Unpardoning See pardoning.
Unpaying See paying.
Unperceiving See perceiving.
Unperforming See performing.
Unperishing See perishing.
Unpitying See pitying.
Unpleasing See pleasing.
Unpossessing See possessing.
Unpreaching See preaching.
Unprepossessing See prepossessing.
Unpresuming See presuming.
Unpretending See pretending.
Unprevailing See prevailing.
Unprevaricating See prevaricating.
Unprofiting See profiting.
Unpromising See promising.
Unproving See proving.
Unquailing See quailing.
Unquestioning See questioning.
Unreasoning See reasoning.
Unrecalling See recalling.
Unreclining See reclining.
Unrecurring See recurring.
Unreferring See referring.
Unreflecting See reflecting.
Unrefunding See refunding.
Unrefusing See refusing.
Unrejoicing See rejoicing.
Unrelaxing See relaxing.
Unrelishing See relishing.
Unremembering See remembering.
Unrepenting See repenting.
Unrepining See repining.
Unreproving See reproving.
Unrepulsing See repulsing.
Unresisting See resisting.
Unresolving See resolving.
Unresting See resting.
Unreturning See returning.
Unrewarding See rewarding.
Unsanctifying See sanctifying.
Unsatisfying See satisfying.
Unsearching See searching.
Unseeing See seeing.
Unsetting See setting.
Unshrinking See shrinking.
Unsinking See sinking.
Unsleeping See sleeping.
Unslipping See slipping.
Unslumbering See slumbering.
Unspeaking See speaking.
Unstinting See stinting.
Unstirring See stirring.
Unstooping See stooping.
Unsubmitting See submitting.
Unsufficing See sufficing.
Unsuiting See suiting.
Unsurging See surging.
Unsuspecting See suspecting.
Unsweating See sweating.
Unswerving See swerving.
Unsympathizing See sympathizing.
Untasting See tasting.
Unthriving See thriving.
Untiring See tiring.
Untoiling See toiling.
Untrading See trading.
Untrembling See trembling.
Untrespassing See trespassing.
Untrifling See trifling.
Unvacillating See vacillating.
Unvarying See varying.
Unwalking See walking.
Unwandering See wandering.
Unwaning See waning.
Unwasting See wasting.
Unwavering See wavering.
Unweeping See weeping.
Unwinking See winking.
Unwinning See winning.
Unwithdrawing See withdrawing.
Unwithering See withering.
Unwondering See wondering.
Unworking See working.
Unwriting See writing.
Unyielding See yielding.
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Note: The above classes of words are unlimited in extent, and such compounds may be formed by any writer or speaker at will from almost all the adjectives or participles in the language, excepting those which have a recognized and usual negative correspondent with the prefix -in. No attempt will be made, therefore, to define them all in this Dictionary; many will be omitted from its Vocabulary which are negations of the simple word, and are readily explained by prefixing a not to the latter. Derivatives of these words in -ly and -ness will also, for the most part, be omitted for the same or similar reasons.
There will be inserted as separate articles with definitions, the following: --
1. Those which have acquired an opposed or contrary, instead of a merely negative, meaning; as, unfriendly, ungraceful, unpalatable, unquiet, and the like; or else an intensive sense more than a prefixed not would express; as, unending, unparalleled, undisciplined, undoubted, unsafe, and the like.
2. Those which have the value of independent words, inasmuch as the simple words are either not used at all, or are rarely, or at least much less frequently, used; as, unavoidable, unconscionable, undeniable, unspeakable, unprecedented, unruly, and the like; or inasmuch as they are used in a different sense from the usual meaning of the primitive, or especially in one of the significations of the latter; as, unaccountable, unalloyed, unbelieving, unpretending, unreserved, and the like; or inasmuch as they are so frequently and familiarly used that they are hardly felt to be of negative origin; as, uncertain, uneven, and the like.
3. Those which are anomalous, provincial, or, for some other reason, not desirable to be used, and are so indicated; as, unpure for impure, unsatisfaction for dissatisfaction, unexpressible for inexpressible, and the like.
II. Un- is prefixed to nouns to express the absence of, or the contrary of, that which the noun signifies; as, unbelief, unfaith, unhealth, unrest, untruth, and the like.
Note: ☞ Compounds of this last class are given in full in their proper order in the Vocabulary.
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unpretending
adj : not ostentatious; "his unostentatious office";
"unostentatious elegance" [syn: unostentatious, unpretentious]
[ant: ostentatious]