Meaning of unthing | Babel Free
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.
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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