unstinted

English

WOTD – 8 September 2011

Etymology

From un- +‎ stinted.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ʌnˈstɪn.tɪd/

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Adjective

unstinted (comparative more unstinted, superlative most unstinted)

1. Not constrained, not restrained, or not confined, great in amount or degree.

   unstinted commitment

   unstinted praise

   unstinted support

   • 1874, Thomas Hardy, chapter 33, in Far from the Madding Crowd. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Smith, Elder & Co., […], →OCLC:

     Mr. Coggan poured the liquor with unstinted liberality at the suffering Cain's circular mouth.

   • 1892, Rudyard Kipling, chapter 1, in Letters of Travel:

     Wherever we went there was the sun, lavish and unstinted.

   • 1900, H. G. Wells, chapter 31, in Love and Mr. Lewisham:

     You must have support and belief—unstinted support and belief.

   • 1921, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 24, in Indiscretions of Archie:

     The music-publisher had been unstinted in his praise.

   • 2005 June 21, “Art: American Renaissance Man”, in Time‎^[1], archived from the original on 6 November 2010:

     Augustus Saint-Gaudens . . .gave the crude, grabbing Republic its lessons in symbolic deportment and visual elocution, and won its unstinted gratitude.

Synonyms

• (not constrained): unconstrained, unrestrained,

unlimited

Related terms

• stint
• stinted
• unstinting
• unstintingly

Translations

not constrained, not restrained, or not confined

• Armenian: անսահման (hy) (ansahman), անչափ (hy) (ančʻapʻ), անկոպար (hy) (ankopar)
• Bulgarian: щедър (bg) (štedǎr), неограничен (bg) (neograničen)
• Danish: uindskrænket, forbeholdsløs, ureserveret, uhæmmet
• Finnish: rajoittamaton (fi), rajaton (fi)
• German: uneingeschränkt (de)
• Maori: rikarika
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: uinnskrenket, forbeholdsløs

• Russian: безграни́чный (ru) (bezgraníčnyj), безмерный (ru) (bezmernyj)
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can
• Swedish: förbehållslös (sv), oreserverad, ohämmad (sv), oinskränkt (sv)