Undesirable

Quick meaning: Undesirable is an adjective meaning Not desirable, objectionable or not likely to please.

Meaning

Not desirable, objectionable or not likely to please.

More Meanings

1. (often in the plural) An undesirable person.

Example Sentences

There would be no need for any of the animals to come in contact with human beings, which would clearly be most undesirable.

Chronic venous disease includes cosmetically undesirable telangiectasias, varicose veins, venous ulceration, and claudication.

The Matchmaking Festival provided social events for these lonely-hearted pilgrims, and allowed local personages to keep undesirables away from their daughters.

The Camden Bench is not an anomaly: more and more, our cities are being designed to keep those deemed as ‘undesirables’ out. By its very nature this is ‘hostile architecture’—urban design with a focus on exclusion, design that inhibits community and tells us who is welcome and who is not.

Word Forms

• undesirables

Synonyms for undesirable

Depending on context, synonyms include mesel, jerk, villain, unenviable, ineligible, unwanted.

Antonyms for undesirable

Common opposites include desirable.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include unenviable, unwanted, ineligible, unfavorable, unsound, untoward.

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