unpleasant
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unpleasant
- /ʌnˈplɛzn̩t/
Where it comes from
From Middle English unplesaunt, equivalent to un- + pleasant.
adjective unpleasanter · more unpleasant · unpleasantest · most unpleasant
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Not pleasant.
O sweet Portia, / Here are a few of the unpleasant’st words / That ever blotted paper!
Similar: disagreeable, distasteful, abhorrant, abhorrent, bad, sickly, mean, infernal, bum, horrid, vile, demonic
Opposite: pleasant
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: ungrateful, unhappy, unlovely, objectionable, awful, rebarbative, dreadful, mortifying, embarrassing, dour, offensive, grim, rough, forbidding, obnoxious, repellant
adjective
Opposite: pleasant
Translations
Every language
adj not pleasant
| Español | desagradable, desapacible, insuave, nada placentero, poco placible, no plácido |
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| 한국어 | 언짢다 eonjjanta |
| 中文 | 令人不快的 lìngrén bùkuài de |
| हिन्दी | अप्रिय apriya |
| Português | desagradável, injucundo |
| Français | déplaisant, pénible, désagréable |
| Deutsch | unangenehm |
| Italiano | spiacevole, sgradevole, scostante, sgradito |
| Ελληνικά | δυσάρεστος dysárestos |
| Română | neplăcut, nedorit, neagreat |
| Русский | неприя́тный neprijátnyj |
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