English > unpleasant: 1 sense > adjective 1| Meaning | Disagreeable to the senses, to the mind, or feelings. |
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| Examples | - "an unpleasant personality"
- "unpleasant repercussions"
- "unpleasant odors"
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| Attribute of | pleasantness, sweetness | The quality of giving pleasure |
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| Narrower | acerb, acerbic, acid, acrid, bitter, blistering, caustic, sulfurous, sulphurous, virulent, vitriolic | harsh or corrosive in tone |
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| afflictive, painful, sore | Causing misery or pain or distress / distress |
| beastly, hellish, god-awful | Very unpleasant |
| dour, forbidding, grim | harshly uninviting / uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance |
| embarrassing, mortifying | Causing to feel shame or chagrin or vexation |
| harsh, rough | unpleasantly stern |
| harsh | Disagreeable to the senses |
| hot | Very unpleasant or even dangerous |
| rebarbative, repellent, repellant | Serving or tending to repel |
| sharp, sharp-worded, tart | harsh |
| ungrateful | Disagreeable |
| unhappy | Causing discomfort |
| unpleasing | Unpleasant or disagreeable to the senses |
| See also | disagreeable | not to your liking |
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| displeasing | Causing displeasure or lacking pleasing qualities |
| ill-natured | Having an irritable and unpleasant disposition |
| inaesthetic, unaesthetic | violating aesthetic / aesthetic canons or requirements |
| nasty, awful | Offensive or even (of persons) malicious |
| offensive | unpleasant or disgusting especially to the senses |
| unpalatable | not pleasant or acceptable to the taste or mind |
| Opposite | pleasant | affording pleasure |
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| Spanish | antipático, desagradable, desapacible, grosero, insultante, ofensivo |
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| Catalan | antipàtic, desagradable |
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| Nouns | unpleasantness | the quality of giving displeasure |
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| unpleasantness | the feeling caused by disagreeable stimuli |
| Adverbs | unpleasantly | in an unpleasant manner |
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