uneating

English

Etymology

un- +‎ eating

Adjective

uneating (not comparable)

  1. Not eating; that does not eat.
    • 1866, Margaret Oliphant Oliphant, Agnes
      Beatrice went down beiow and lived there, unsleeping and uneating, like Agnes herself, but possessed by a kind of despair, and guilty horror...
    • 1966, Robie Macauley, Gallery of modern fiction
      Mattie came downstairs, hung uneating over her cakes, her throat too thick with worry about Gardiner Bent to swallow.
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