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DISAGREEABLE
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Not to your liking
Example:
a disagreeable situation
Classified under:
Similar:
annoying; bothersome; galling; irritating; nettlesome; pesky; pestering; pestiferous; plaguey; plaguy; teasing; vexatious; vexing (causing irritation or annoyance)
dreadful (extremely disagreeable and unpleasant)
abrasive; harsh (sharply disagreeable; rigorous)
nerve-racking; nerve-wracking; stressful; trying (extremely irritating to the nerves)
unsweet (distasteful)
Antonym:
agreeable (conforming to your own liking or feelings or nature)
Derivation:
disagreeableness (the quality of being disagreeable and unpleasant)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Not agreeing with your tastes or expectations
Example:
a job temperamentally unsympathetic to him
Synonyms:
disagreeable; unsympathetic
Classified under:
Similar:
incompatible; uncongenial (not suitable to your tastes or needs)
Derivation:
disagreeableness (the quality of being disagreeable and unpleasant)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Unpleasant to interact with
Example:
a disagreeable old man
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
ill-natured (having an irritable and unpleasant disposition)
Context examples:
I had many acquaintance, and among persons of the best fashion; and being always attended by my interpreter, the conversation we had was not disagreeable.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
An olfactory disturbance where the sense of smell inaccurately conveys disagreeable sensations.
(Parosmia, NCI Thesaurus)
A colorless, oily, highly flammable liquid with a strong, disagreeable odor that emits toxic fumes of nitrogen oxides upon decomposition.
(Nitromethane, NCI Thesaurus)
Modern education includes morality; therefore the modern child seeks only entertainment in its wonder tales and gladly dispenses with all disagreeable incident.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
He gave a short, disagreeable laugh.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
The wine was Golden Mediasch, which produces a queer sting on the tongue, which is, however, not disagreeable.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
But how came you to tell me that he was so disagreeable?
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
“It has a disagreeable look to me. I must get rid of every thing. There it goes, and there is an end, thank Heaven! of Mr. Elton.”
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
And with this admirable discretion did she defer the assurance of her finding their mutual relatives more disagreeable than ever, and of her being particularly disgusted with his mother, till they were more in private.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
I kept expecting that Miss Scatcherd would praise her attention; but, instead of that, she suddenly cried out—You dirty, disagreeable girl! you have never cleaned your nails this morning!
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
