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Another word for undesirable

undesirable Synonyms

undesirable

modif.

objectionable, shunned, disliked, to be avoided, unwanted, outcast, rejected, defective, disadvantageous, inexpedient, inconvenient, incommodious, troublesome, unwished for, repellent, loathed, unsought, dreaded, annoying, insufferable, unacceptable, scorned, displeasing, disliked, distasteful, loathsome, abominable, obnoxious, unpopular, bothersome, unlikable, unwelcome, unapprovable, useless, inadmissible, unsatisfactory, disagreeable, awkward, embarrassing, unfit.

Antonyms welcome*, proper, suitable.

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Another word for undesirable

adjective

Arousing disapproval:
exceptionable, ill-favored, inadmissible, objectionable, unacceptable, unwanted, unwelcome. See like
Not welcome or wanted:
undesired, uninvited, unsought, unwanted, unwelcome, unwished-for. See like

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Education produced many unforeseen and undesirable practical results.
Again, it is generally recognized to be undesirable to give marks for a smattering.
When the roof is weak, or when it is undesirable to leave so much ore in the stopes, false stulls are sometimes erected in the upper part of the stope.
Duke Henry had decreed that his lands should be divided between his two sons, but as a partition was regarded as undesirable the whole of the duchy came to his elder son.
It was then employed to describe a "peasant," and gradually began to denote undesirable qualities.

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