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undesirous

undesirous adjective: not desirous.

Adjective

undesirous (comparative more undesirous, superlative most undesirous)

  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 of undesirous

comparativemore undesirous
superlativemost undesirous

Origin of undesirous

From un- + desirous.

Words formed from undesirous

Questions about undesirous

What does undesirous mean?
Undesirous means not desirous.
What part of speech is undesirous?
Undesirous is an adjective.

Words near undesirous in the dictionary

  1. undesireable
  2. undesired
  3. undesiredly
  4. undesires
  5. undesiring
  6. undesirous
  7. undesirously
  8. undesirousness
  9. undesisting
  10. undesked
  11. undespairing

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