unteeming

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English

Etymology

From un- +‎ teeming.

Adjective

unteeming (not comparable)

  1. That does not teem.
    • 1926, Henley William Ernest, Poems, page 116:
      What is Death / But Life in act? How should the Unteeming Grave / Be victor over thee, / Mother, a mother of men?
    • 2016, Charles Foster, Being a Beast:
      Usually, though, the light days in the water were unbiological, unteeming times.
  2. (obsolete) Barren; infertile.
    the unteeming womb