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Spacewater Posted 17 years ago
Grammar

Discreet, uninflammatory

"As I swung on to the avenue behind her, there seemed to be a discreet, uninflammatory distance beween us.

What is the meaning of discreet in this context?
uninflammatory is nowhere to be found in dictionary.com Emotion: smoking
  

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Hi, As I swung on to the avenue behind her, there seemed to be a discreet, uninflammatory distance beween us. What is the meaning of discreet in this context? Careful, in order to avoid social embarrassment for some reason.

  • Hi, As I swung on to the avenue behind her, there seemed to be a discreet, uninflammatory distance beween us.
  • What is the meaning of discreet in this context?
  • Careful, in order to avoid social embarrassment for some reason.
  • The reason depends on the context.
  • eg Perhaps they are lovers, and they wish no-one to know.
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Hi,

As I swung on to the avenue behind her, there seemed to be a discreet, uninflammatory distance beween us.

What is the meaning of discreet in this context? Careful, in order to avoid social embarrassment for some reason. The reason depends on the context. eg Perhaps they are lovers, and they wish no-one to know.

uninflammatory is nowhere to be found in dictio
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Thank you once again for your clear explanation
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Holy cow, I just finished reading that short story. English 101-34, yeah?
According to Merrium Webster, inflammatory means: "tending to excite anger, disorder, or tumult",
so uninflammatory must mean nearly the opposite. In this case, I'd say it means not doing anything to cause tension or nervousness.
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from looking and the non inflamatory definition i got that it means
non threatening the author thought that he wasnt that close to the
woman as he said a discreet uninflammatory distance like he wasnt
to close for comfort
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I HAVE THE SAME TEXT WITH THE SAME PROBLEM
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Thank you so much it was very helpful

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