unloving

English

Etymology

un- +‎ loving

Adjective

unloving (comparative more unloving, superlative most unloving)

  1. Not loving.
    • 1977 April 30, Louie Crew, “Expelling the Genital Exchequers from the Temple”, in Gay Community News, page 5:
      Every year between six and eight million parents desert their children; two to three million teenagers run away from typically unloving homes.
    • 2014, Sean Morgan, Tracy Phillips, Mastery of Change:
      The negative belief is always more petty, self-serving, unallowing, resistant, fearful, and unloving.

Verb

unloving

  1. present participle and gerund of unlove
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