Disagreeable
adj, noun ·Common ·High school level
Definitions
- 1 Something or someone displeasing; anything that is disagreeable.
"The disagreeables of travelling are necessary evils, to be encountered for the sake of the agreeables of resting and looking round you."
- 1 Causing repugnance; unpleasant to the feelings or senses; displeasing.
"disagreeable weather"
- 2 Not suitable; that does not conform or fit. archaic
"The first author I shall cite is Justin Martyr, who is not only silent about infant-baptism, as are all the fathers before him, but says what is inconsistent with it; for the reason he assigns, as what he had received from the apostles themselves, why baptism was instituted, is altogether incompatible and disagreeable thereunto."
- 1 not to your liking wordnet
- 2 not agreeing with your tastes or expectations wordnet
- 3 unpleasant to interact with wordnet
Example
More examples"Tom watched them hurry through the doors, a disagreeable expression on his face."
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English disagreable, from Middle French desagreable, from Old French desagraable (compare French désagréable). By surface analysis, dis- + agreeable.
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