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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

undesirous en · ADJ

Etymology

From un- + desirous.

Meanings

  1. Not desirous
    • He did not know that what he was experiencing then, that unreal, undesirous medley of ecstasy and peace, would be unrecapturable forever. 1925, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Love in the Night:
  2. Undesirable
    • In the ever-going struggle to eradicate both external and internalized homophobia from the lives of both homosexual and heterosexual men and women, however, an extremely undesirous linguistic custom has taken root among ourselves as gay persons and among heterosexual men and women. 1986 February 8, James F. Gibbons, “"Lesbian" Is Deeply Sexist”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 29, page 5:

Forms

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most undesirous Degree=Sup lexicographic
more undesirous Degree=Cmp lexicographic

Deriveds

undesirously · undesirousness