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uncomˈpanionable, a.
[un-1 7 b.]
1. Of persons: Not companionable; unsociable.
1748Richardson Clarissa VII. 149 Uncompanionable poor creatures. 1796–7Jane Austen Pride & Prej. xxvii, With such a mother and such uncompanionable sisters, home could not be faultless. 1819Shelley Cyclops 425 Do you desire, or not, to fly This uncompanionable man? 1873Helps Anim. & Mast. viii. 177 But any thing more uncompanionable than the society of London cannot well be imagined.
2. Of things: Not fitted to go together.
1855[J. D. Burn] Autobiog. Beggar Boy (1859) 121 Philosophy and hungry bellies are as uncompanionable as they were at the siege of Jerusalem! |