Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

undesirous

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: un-de-sirous
IPA

11

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

adj

Example Sentences

"He did not know that what he was experiencing then, that unreal, undesirous medley of ecstasy and peace, would be unrecapturable forever."
"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."

Etymology

From un- + desirous.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: un

Inflected Forms

more undesirous (comparative) most undesirous (superlative)

Derived Forms

undesirously undesirousness

Synonyms

undesiring

Questions

What does undesirous mean?: Not desirous
Where does undesirous come from?: From un- + desirous.

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