undesirous

Examples

• All

• Despite the offer, she was undesirous of participating in the project.

• He felt undesirous of the luxurious lifestyle that his friends were pursuing.

• In an uninformed and undesirous state, girls find it hard to distinguish choice from coercion, and they aren't at all certain of how to make such a distinction.

  Academic text (1990)

Synonyms

U

unwilling

vsundesirous

139 3.4

Not wanting to do something and doing it only because you must

means lacking desire rather than actively refusing or resisting action

U

uninterested

vsundesirous

20 3.5

Not wanting to know about or take part in something

expresses absence of desire rather than only a lack of interest

U

unmotivated

vsundesirous

8 4.4

Not feeling interest or energy to do something

means lacking desire itself rather than lacking the drive to act

D

disinclined

vsundesirous

• Formal

5 6.4

Not willing to do something because you do not really want to

describes lacking desire rather than simply being reluctant to act

U

unenthusiastic

vsundesirous

4 3.9

Not showing much interest or excitement

implies absence of desire itself rather than merely low excitement

U

unenthused

vsundesirous

• Informal

1 5.3

Not showing excitement or interest

focuses on lacking desire rather than only lacking visible enthusiasm

D

desireless

vsundesirous

1 7.4

Not wanting anything

refers to lacking desire for something specific rather than all desires

U

undesiring

vsundesirous

7.7

Not wanting something or feeling no wish for it

is the alternative form with identical meaning rather than a different sense

Antonyms

D

desirous

9 7.2

Wanting something very much

How Desirous

eager

447 1.0

desirous

9 7.2

interested

∞ 1.0

indifferent

46 4.4

undesirous

9.1

uninterested

20 3.5

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology