Unpleasurable
adj
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 That gives displeasure.
"Before the advent of resensation there exists neither the known nor the unknown, only pleasurable, comfortable, or unpleasurable sensations which come and go. With resensation there arises the division into the familiar and the new, the unknown."
Example
More examples"Before the advent of resensation there exists neither the known nor the unknown, only pleasurable, comfortable, or unpleasurable sensations which come and go. With resensation there arises the division into the familiar and the new, the unknown."
Etymology
From un- + pleasurable.
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