undesirable

1. 1.

   one whose presence is undesirable

   “rounding up vagrants and drunks and other undesirables”

   Broaderunwelcome person

Other forms of undesirable

plural

undesirables·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about undesirable

What does undesirable mean?

undesirable means "not wanted". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in undesirable?

undesirable has 5 syllables: un-de-si-ra-ble. The stress falls on "si". In IPA it is /ˌʌndɪˈzaɪɹəbəl/.

What is another word for undesirable?

Close synonyms include unwanted, unsuitable. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of undesirable?

The recorded antonyms are desirable.

Is undesirable a common word?

undesirable is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with undesirable?

1 word rhymes with undesirable. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.