unstinted
English
WOTD – 8 September 2011
Etymology
From un- + stinted.
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /ʌnˈstɪn.tɪd/
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Adjective
unstinted (comparative more unstinted, superlative most unstinted)
- Not constrained, not restrained, or not confined, great in amount or degree.
- unstinted commitment
- unstinted praise
- unstinted support
- 1874, Thomas Hardy, chapter 33, in Far from the Madding Crowd. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Smith, Elder & Co., […], OCLC 2481962:
- Mr. Coggan poured the liquor with unstinted liberality at the suffering Cain's circular mouth.
- 1892, Rudyard Kipling, Letters of Travel:
- Wherever we went there was the sun, lavish and unstinted.
- 1900, H. G. Wells, “ch. 31”, in Love and Mr. Lewisham:
- You must have support and belief—unstinted support and belief.
- 1921, P. G. Wodehouse, “ch. 24”, in Indiscretions of Archie:
- The music-publisher had been unstinted in his praise.
- 21 June 2005, Robert Hughes, “Art: American Renaissance Man”, in Time:
- Augustus Saint-Gaudens . . .gave the crude, grabbing Republic its lessons in symbolic deportment and visual elocution, and won its unstinted gratitude.
Synonyms
- (not constrained): unconstrained, unrestrained,
unlimited
Related terms
- stint
- stinted
- unstinting
- unstintingly
Translations
not constrained, not restrained, or not confined
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