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Meaning of unthing | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1

Definitions

Something irrelevant or inconsequential; a non-issue; an absurdity.

Examples

“They made a thing of an unthing and put it on paper.”
“Whether or not PPB is an unthing in the federal bureaucracy, the budgetary concepts that are represented by it and its conceptual predecessors are still viable within OMB: control, management, and planning.”
“This hidden heart essence, so secret, An unthing untouched by the eterne […]”
“It does not follow from either the metaphor or the possibility of defining this space mathematically that it must be Leibniz's dreaded unthing “unthing” – a something that is nothing.”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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