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displeasant

displeasant adjective: unpleasant, disagreeable.

Adjective

displeasant (comparative more displeasant, superlative most displeasant)

  1. (obsolete except as archaic) Unpleasant, disagreeable.
    • ‘She suffers spasms, torsions and trances. It sounds most displeasant.’2009, Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall, Fourth Estate, published 2010, page 383

Forms of displeasant

comparativemore displeasant
superlativemost displeasant
alternative formdispleasaunt

Origin of displeasant

From Old French desplaisant, present participle of desplaire (“to displease”).

Words formed from displeasant

Questions about displeasant

What does displeasant mean?
Displeasant means unpleasant, disagreeable.
What part of speech is displeasant?
Displeasant is an adjective.

Words near displeasant in the dictionary

  1. displays
  2. displaywide
  3. disple
  4. displeas'd
  5. displeasance
  6. displeasant
  7. displeasantly
  8. displeasantness
  9. displeasaunt
  10. displease
  11. displeased

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