unconserving
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
That does not conserve.
Example Sentences
- "In the community at large, as in the cities, patterns of transport have evolved which no one particularly intended and which have turned out to be inordinately costly and unconserving. Road users never pay their full costs."
- "When nylon fishing nets reach a Southeast Asian village, the old net making is dropped. At its most extreme, such profoundly unconserving behavior results in the well-known havoc wrought on the cultures and economies of primitive people by contact with new goods, services and work brought in from outside."
Etymology
From un- + conserving.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: un
Inflected Forms
more unconserving (comparative)
most unconserving (superlative)