Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

unsustaining

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: un-sus-tain-ing
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

4

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

That does not sustain.

Example Sentences

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

Etymology

From un- + sustaining.

Inflected Forms

more unsustaining (comparative) most unsustaining (superlative)

Questions

What does unsustaining mean?: That does not sustain.
Where does unsustaining come from?: From un- + sustaining.

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