undomesticadj.
1. Not caring for, not pertaining to, home life or duties.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > [adjective] > of or belonging to home > devoted to home > not
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1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison V. lviii. 385 That wives and daughters were never more faulty, more undomestic, than at present.
1806 R. Cumberland Mem. (1807) II. 281 I am very rarely called off by avocations of an undomestic kind.
1857 Ld. Dufferin Lett. from High Latitudes (ed. 3) 5 The undomestic Mr. Ebenezer Wyse.
2. Unlike a home; lacking the character of a home.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > [adjective] > of or belonging to home > resembling home > not
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1798 S. T. Coleridge Lett. (1895) 265 When the tears rolled out of my eyes, and this naked, undomestic room became again visible.
1883 Cent. Mag. Oct. 859/1 As undomestic a looking pile of brick and mortar as was ever put together.
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