inappreciative

[ in-uh-pree-shee-uh-tiv, -ey-tiv, -shuh-tiv ]

adjective

1. not appreciative; lacking in appreciation.

inappreciative

/ ˌɪnəˈpriːʃətɪv /

adjective

1. lacking appreciation; unappreciative

Derived Forms

• ˌinapˈpreciatively, adverb
• ˌinapˌpreciˈation, noun

Other Words From

• inap·preci·ative·ly adverb
• inap·preci·ative·ness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of inappreciative¹

First recorded in 1895–1900; in- ³ + appreciative

Example Sentences

Beneath the shelter of the verandah lay the forms of many who had been wounded, and who now were sufficiently recovered to sit outside; here and there a man limped painfully with the aid of crutches, to talk to a comrade who, with his arm in a sling, was not altogether inappreciative of the fact that he had been wounded in a recent sniping affray against the enemy's position in the brickfields.

From Project Gutenberg

Unapprē′ciated, not appreciated; Unapprē′ciātive, inappreciative.

From Project Gutenberg

But this superficial, inappreciative use of Frœbel's processes, is as fatal to his reform as was judaizing to the primitive Christian Church.

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No traveller, however ignorant or inappreciative of science, can fail to realize the immense interest which these evidences of some great natural convulsion must possess for the geologist; and a knowledge of the recent geological discoveries in this and other of the Western Islands is not needed to impress us with the conviction that treasures of truth are beneath and around us everywhere, waiting to be revealed.

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Some of the readers of these pages may, possibly, be in greater sympathy with the general position of the S. P. G. than of the C. M. S; but no consideration of this sort should allow us to be inappreciative of the splendid work which the C. M. S. has done in the past, and is still doing in non-Christian countries.

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