Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not winking; not shutting the eyes; not ceasing to wake or watch.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Not winking.

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word unwinking.

Examples

  • But the unwinking stereo-eyes of the autopilot fed its data to the 'brain'; the submolar mechanism selected and rejected; the Ship grounded gently on a rolling high prairie near a clump of vegetation.

    Destiny Narrowly Avoided 2010

  • But the rat-trap mouth was still the same, and that unwinking half-blue half-brown eye boring into me.

    Fiancée 2010

  • Its THE NIGHT FACE screen grew black and full of wintry unwinking stars.

    do you ever read writing? Peter DeWolf 2010

  • He was a nondescript fellow, in his shabby suit, but with an eye bright and unwinking as a bird's questing over me and missing nothing, and while he wasn't above middle height I guessed that anyone who ran into him would come away bruised.

    THE NUMBERS 2010

  • In this summer's sequel, Iron Man 2, Downey takes unwinking self-consciousness to heights where he can be visited only by Bill Murray.

    The Brainy Blockbuster 2010

  • In terms of thematic scope, narrative complexity and unwinking bleakness, both its ambition and its achievement were extraordinary.

    Archive 2009-09-01 Tim Stretton 2009

  • In terms of thematic scope, narrative complexity and unwinking bleakness, both its ambition and its achievement were extraordinary.

    :Acquired Taste Tim Stretton 2009

  • The Spectre, without stirring, and with its unwinking, cruel eyes still fixed upon his face, went on:

    The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain 2007

  • Mr Baptist, never taking his eyes from his dreaded chum of old, softly sat down on the floor with his back against the door and one of his ankles in each hand: resuming the attitude (except that it was now expressive of unwinking watchfulness) in which he had sat before the same man in the deeper shade of another prison, one hot morning at Marseilles.

    Little Dorrit 2007

  • At dinner she maintained her watch, with the same unwinking eyes.

    David Copperfield 2007

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.