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unattractive

adj

Etymology

From un- + attractive.

  1. derived from attractīvus
  2. derived from attractif
  3. formed as unattractive — “un- + attractive”

Definitions

  1. Not handsome or beautiful or appealing.

  2. Lacking the power to attract interest.

    • In light of the similarities of this word to siṡáya etc. and their close semantic proximity, it is unattractive to separate these two words.

  3. An aesthetically unattractive person

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at unattractive. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at unattractive. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at unattractive

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA