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UNLOVING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does unloving mean?
• UNLOVING (adjective)
The adjective UNLOVING has 1 sense:
1. not giving or reciprocating affection
Familiarity information: UNLOVING used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Not giving or reciprocating affection
Similar:
cold; frigid (sexually unresponsive)
loveless (without love)
detached; unaffectionate; uncaring (lacking affection or warm feeling)
unromantic (neither expressive of nor exciting sexual love or romance)
Also:
coldhearted (lacking in sympathy or feeling)
Antonym:
loving (feeling or showing love and affection)
Context examples
The clay of White Fang had been moulded until he became what he was, morose and lonely, unloving and ferocious, the enemy of all his kind.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
By it he had been formed and hardened into the Fighting Wolf, fierce and implacable, unloving and unlovable.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
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