Usually means: Not wanted or approved; unfavorable.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word undesirable:

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  1. undesirable: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. undesirable: Merriam-Webster
  3. undesirable: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. undesirable: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. undesirable: Collins English Dictionary
  6. undesirable: Vocabulary.com
  7. Undesirable, undesirable: Wordnik
  8. undesirable: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. undesirable: Wiktionary
  10. undesirable: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. undesirable: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. undesirable: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. undesirable: Dictionary.com
  14. undesirable (adj.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. undesirable: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Undesirable: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. undesirable: Rhymezone
  18. undesirable: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. undesirable: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. undesirable: FreeDictionary.org
  21. undesirable: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. undesirable: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. undesirable: Legal dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. undesirable: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See undesirability as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Objectionable or not likely to please.
noun:  (often in the plural) An undesirable person.

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