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displeasaunt

displeasaunt is the obsolete form of displeasant.

Meaning of displeasant

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 displeasaunt

comparativemore displeasaunt
superlativemost displeasaunt

Questions about displeasaunt

What is displeasaunt the obsolete form of?
Displeasaunt is the obsolete form of displeasant.

Words near displeasaunt in the dictionary

  1. displeas'd
  2. displeasance
  3. displeasant
  4. displeasantly
  5. displeasantness
  6. displeasaunt
  7. displease
  8. displeased
  9. displeasedly
  10. displeasedness
  11. displeaser

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Adapted from Wiktionary: displeasaunt (page history and authors); displeasant (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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