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unenviable

unenviable adjective: difficult, undesirable, or unpleasant; not to be envied.

Adjective

unenviable (comparative more unenviable, superlative most unenviable)

  1. Difficult, undesirable, or unpleasant; not to be envied.
    • Valjean was in the unenviable position of either living with the knowledge an innocent would suffer for his crime or revealing his true identity and going back to prison.
    • There might be a 'train captain' on board, as on the Docklands Light Railway, but this would be an unenviable role on our packed Tube: the train captain would be condemned to live in a permanent rush hour.2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 277

unenviable meaning in Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada

unenviable in Urdu

ناقابل رشک

unenviable in Malayalam

unpleasant, disagreeable, nasty
അസൂയാർഹമല്ലാത്ത, അസൂയപ്പെടാനില്ലാത്ത, അഹിതകരമായ, അപഹിത, ഹിതമല്ലാത്ത, അനിഷ്ടകരമായ

unenviable in Kannada

ಅಹಿತಕರವಾದ, ಕಷ್ಟದ, ಯಾರೂ ಕರುಬದ

Antonyms of unenviable

Forms of unenviable

comparativemore unenviable
superlativemost unenviable

Origin of unenviable

From un- + enviable.

Words formed from unenviable

Questions about unenviable

What does unenviable mean?
Unenviable means difficult, undesirable, or unpleasant; not to be envied.
What is unenviable in Urdu?
Unenviable in Urdu is ناقابل رشک. See Unenviable meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is unenviable?
Unenviable is an adjective.

Words near unenviable in the dictionary

  1. unenumerated right
  2. unenumerated rights
  3. unenveloped
  4. unenvenomed
  5. unenviability
  6. unenviable
  7. unenviableness
  8. unenviably
  9. unenvied
  10. unenvious
  11. unenviously

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unenviable (page history and authors); unenviable (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); unenviable (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); unenviable (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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