unsustaining

unsustaining

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ sustaining.

Adjective

unsustaining (comparative more unsustaining, superlative most unsustaining)

  1. That does not sustain.
    unsustaining food
    • 2009 July 24, Holland Cotter, “Postcards From Canada’s ‘New North’”, in The New York Times‎[1], archived from the original on 6 May 2021:
      It also entailed well-documented disadvantages: a population increase in an unsustaining economy, a battered self-identity, a plague of substance abuse.
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