unwantedadj.
/(ˌ)ʌnˈwɒntᵻd/, U.S. /ˌənˈwɑn(t)əd/ (un- prefix1 2.) Also absol. as n.
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the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > [adjective] > not desiring or desirous of > not desired
unsought?c1225
unwished1583
uncourted1595
undesired1599
unaffected1611
unwished-for1617
unwilled1648
uncontended1697
unwanted1697
unbesought1739
uncoveted1769
unlonged-for1834
inappetible1874
the mind > language > statement > refusal > [noun] > rejection or non-acceptance > that which is rejected or refused > person that is rejected
offcasta1387
oversight1531
retraict1575
rejected1593
reject1917
unwanted1932
1697 W. Congreve Mourning Bride iii. i. 38 [A] return..so unwish'd, unwanted too it seems.
1731 A. Hill Advice to Virgins 10 Yet modest excellence will oft descend To thank unwanted caution in a friend.
1808 W. Mitford Hist. Greece (new ed.) IV. 476 Yet exhortation..seems not to have been unwanted.
1864 A. Thomas Denis Donne I. vii. 167 Finding some one located at Donne Place who would prevent his occupying the distressing position of third and unwanted one.
1886 Manning in Contemp. Rev. May 693 The duty society owes to the lives of unwanted children.
1932 New Statesman 10 Sept. 284/2 We don't take no notice although she did 'ave a little Unwanted.
1949 Here & Now (N.Z.) Oct. 18/1 The new freedom has to be weighed against the risk of rearing a generation of unwanteds, filled with..hostility.
1976 Daily Record (Glasgow) 4 Dec. 31/5 The problem is not peculiar to Saints... Bigger teams heave out unwanteds, their feet not touching the ground.
Draft additions 1993
unˈwantedness n. the fact or quality of being or feeling unwanted.
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the mind > emotion > hatred > dislike > [noun]
loathc1175
unlikinga1398
mislovinga1500
scunner?a1513
misliking1563
recess1567
mislikea1569
quarrel1579
underliking1581
ill liking1586
disaffection1599
dyspathy1603
exception1604
aversation1612
disrelish1613
unrelishness1615
misaffection1621
averseness1622
distastefulnessa1625
disaffectedness1625
disrelishing1692
eloinmenta1763
unwantedness1955
1955 Louisiana Rep. 227 966 That unwantedness that would most surely bring the keenest and most insufferable unhappiness.
1980 in Human Life Rev. 6 38 Unwantedness itself is a factor deranging the management of pregnancy.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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adj.1697