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undoˈmestic, a.
[un-1 7.]
1. Not caring for, not pertaining to, home life or duties.
1754Richardson Grandison V. lviii. 385 That wives and daughters were never more faulty, more undomestic, than at present. 1806R. Cumberland Mem. (1807) II. 281, I am very rarely called off by avocations of an undomestic kind. 1857Dufferin Lett. High Lat. (ed. 3) 5 The undomestic Mr. Ebenezer Wyse.
2. Unlike a home; lacking the character of a home.
1798Coleridge Lett. (1895) 265 When the tears rolled out of my eyes, and this naked, undomestic room became again visible. 1883Century Mag. Oct. 859/1 As undomestic a looking pile of brick and mortar as was ever put together. |