disagreeable

[ dis-uh-gree-uh-buhl ]
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adjective
  1. contrary to one's taste or liking; unpleasant; offensive; repugnant.

  2. unpleasant in manner or nature; unamiable: a thoroughly disagreeable person.

noun
  1. an unpleasant or repugnant circumstance, attribute, thing, etc.: Bent on being cheerful, he suppressed any mention of the disagreeable in our conversation.

  2. disagreeables, the disagreeable aspects of a situation, course of action, etc.: The pleasant features of the arrangement far outweigh the disagreeables.

Origin of disagreeable

1
First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English word from Middle French word desagreable.See dis-1, agreeable

Other words for disagreeable

Other words from disagreeable

  • dis·a·gree·a·ble·ness, dis·a·gree·a·bil·i·ty, noun
  • dis·a·gree·a·bly, adverb
  • un·dis·a·gree·a·ble, adjective

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How to use disagreeable in a sentence

  • Then he turned suddenly, and Harris saw that his face had turned most oddly and disagreeably sinister.

    Three More John Silence Stories | Algernon Blackwood
  • But she made herself so intensely and disagreeably officious that his patience was sorely tried.

    Elster's Folly | Mrs. Henry Wood
  • Cash had laughed disagreeably and asked Bud what he was going to do—draw a chalk mark, maybe?

    Cabin Fever | B. M. Bower
  • Only be persuaded that I feel the delay (as I fear it must prove) of my visit, not less disagreeably than you do yourself.

  • Behind him he left, for one brief minute, a dazed silence before Tilly lifted her chin disagreeably and spoke.

    The Sunbridge Girls at Six Star Ranch | Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter

British Dictionary definitions for disagreeable

disagreeable

/ (ˌdɪsəˈɡriːəbəl) /


adjective
  1. not likable, esp bad-tempered, offensive, or disobliging: disagreeable remarks

  2. not to one's liking; unpleasant: a disagreeable task

Derived forms of disagreeable

  • disagreeableness or disagreeability, noun
  • disagreeably, adverb

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