Definition of ungiving in English:
ungiving
adjectiveʌnˈɡɪvɪŋˌənˈɡiviNG
1(of a person) cold or stubborn towards other people.
a crusty, ungiving, authoritarian father
Example sentencesExamples
- Inspirational and imbued with an engaging, multidimensional personality on the park, he can be infuriatingly insouciant and ungiving off it.
- In the beginning, both seemed austere, even ungiving.
- He eyes were no longer ungiving, but somehow new like a child's.
- It may have embarked willingly on a peace strategy with its neighbours, but it has adopted a grudging and ungiving attitude in its daily dealings with its Arab neighbours.
- How do generous children become ungiving parents?
2(of a substance or material) not pliable; stiff.
I was wearing a new dress of taffeta that felt slippery and ungiving against my body
every day he perches on the ungiving sidewalk
Synonyms
rigid, hard, firm, hardened, inelastic, non-flexible, inflexible