a. [UN-1 7 b.]
1. Of persons: Not companionable; unsociable.
1748. Richardson, Clarissa, VII. 149. Uncompanionable poor creatures.
1796–7. Jane Austen, Pride & Prej., xxvii. With such a mother and such uncompanionable sisters, home could not be faultless.
1819. Shelley, Cyclops, 425. Do you desire, or not, to fly This uncompanionable man?
1873. Helps, Anim. & Mast., viii. 177. But any thing more uncompanionable than the society of London cannot well be imagined.
2. Of things: Not fitted to go together.
1852. [J. D. Burn], Autobiog. Beggar Boy (1859), 121. Philosophy and hungry bellies are as uncompanionable as they were at the siege of Jerusalem!
