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undomestic en · ADJ

Etymology

From un- + domestic.

Meanings

1. Not domestic.
   • Kate knew it was not really home, but she had to admit that these busy undomestic moderns had found a good substitute for it: or, at least, that, taking their domesticity through the mediumship of Mrs. Dennison, they contrived to absorb enough of it to keep them going. 1914, Elia Wilkinson Peattie, The Precipice:
   • Yet one word more of personal concern-- Since I withdrew unwillingly from France, I led an undomestic wanderer's life, 350 In London chiefly harboured, whence I roamed, Tarrying at will in many a pleasant spot Of rural England's cultivated vales Or Cambrian solitudes. 1896, William Wordsworth, The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Vol. III:

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