uncompanionableadj.
/ˌʌnkəmˈpanjənəbl/, /ˌʌŋkəmˈpanjənəbl/, U.S. /ˌənkəmˈpænjənəb(ə)l/ 1. Of persons: Not companionable; unsociable.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > [adjective] > not fit or inclined for society
moy1487
uncompanable1555
inconversable1577
unconversable1593
insociable1598
unsociable1600
dissociable1603
unconversing1643
insocial1654
incommunicative1670
segregative1685
uncommunicative1691
unsocial1731
unamicable1732
uncompanionable1748
dissocial1762
unclubbable?1764
ungregarious1829
lame1942
socially distanced1970
1748 S. Richardson Clarissa VII. xxxix. 149 Uncompanionable poor creatures.
1813 J. Austen Pride & Prejudice II. iv. 41 With such a mother and such uncompanionable sisters, home could not be faultless. View more context for this quotation
a1822 P. B. Shelley Cyclops in Posthumous Poems (1824) 347 Do you desire, or not, to fly This uncompanionable man?
1873 A. Helps Some Talk about Animals & their Masters viii. 177 But anything more uncompanionable than the society of London cannot well be imagined.
2. Of things: Not fitted to go together.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > order > disorder > disharmony or incongruity > unsuitability or inappropriateness > [adjective] > badly or unsuitably matched > incapable of being matched
unmatchable1583
uncompanionable1855
1855 J. D. Burn Autobiogr. Beggar Boy viii. 121 Philosophy and hungry bellies are as uncompanionable as they were at the siege of Jerusalem!
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adj.1748