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ungardenlike en · ADJ

Etymology

From un- + gardenlike.

Meanings

1. Unlike a garden.
   • How shall I omit those ungardenlike gardens, void of pot-herbs? or the Augean store, which we cleared out and spread over them; what time we worked the hillside plough, vine-planter I, and awful you, with this neck and hands, which still bear the marks of the toil (O earth and sun, air and virtue! for I will tragicize a bit), not the Hellespont to yoke, but to level the steep. 1840, John Henry Newman, The Church of the Fathers, section VIII:

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