unpronouncing

English

Etymology

un- +‎ pronouncing

Adjective

unpronouncing (not comparable)

1. That does not pronounce, or does not pronounce clearly.
   • 1851, Rosina Doyle Bulwer-Lytton, Miriam Sedley; or, The tares and the wheat, volume 173, page 300:

     […] she had one of those peculiarly English unpronouncing voices, which gave one the idea of her throat being lined with fleecy hosiery, […]

   • 1873, National Education Association of the United States, Addresses and Proceedings, page 213:

     Here we have a thought and its full expression in the sentence "mice eat cheese." Can you not do with this pronouncing form of the sentence all that Mr. Farnham has described as being done with the other unpronouncing form of it? You can go from the thought and sentence to the idea and spoken word cheese and its printed orthographic form […]