undesirous

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ desirous.

Adjective

undesirous (comparative more undesirous, superlative most undesirous)

  1. Not desirous
    • 1925, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Love in the Night:
      He did not know that what he was experiencing then, that unreal, undesirous medley of ecstasy and peace, would be unrecapturable forever.
  2. Undesirable
    • 1986 February 8, James F. Gibbons, “"Lesbian" Is Deeply Sexist”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 29, page 5:
      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.
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