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displease

Syllables: dis·please/dɪsˈpliːz/

displease verb: to make not pleased; to cause a feeling of disapprobation or dislike in; to be disagreeable to; to vex slightly.

Verb

displease (third-person singular simple present displeases, present participle displeasing, simple past and past participle displeased)

  1. (transitive) To make not pleased; to cause a feeling of disapprobation or dislike in; to be disagreeable to; to vex slightly.
    • The boy's rudeness displeased me.
    • I felt displeased with the boy.
  2. (intransitive) To give displeasure or offense.
  3. (obsolete, transitive) To fail to satisfy; to miss of.
    • I shall displease my ends else.c. 1608–1611, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, “The Maid’s Tragedy”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679, →OCLC, Act IV...

displease meaning in Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada

displease in Urdu

دل کھٹا کرنا, ناخوش کرنا, رلانا

displease in Malayalam

irk, annoy, irritate
അപ്രീതിപ്പെടുത്തുക, മുഷിച്ചിലുണ്ടാക്കുക, അനിഷ്ടം വരുത്തുക, സഹികെടുത്തുക, അരിശം പിടിപ്പിക്കുക, അസംതൃപ്തി ഉളവാക്കുക

displease in Kannada

ಮನನೋಯಿಸು, ಅಸಂತೋಷಗೊಳಿಸು, ಅಸಮಾಧಾನಪಡಿಸು, ಕಿರಿಕಿರಿ ಮಾಡು, ರೇಗಿಸು, ಅಸಮಾಧಾನಗೊಳಿಸು

Examples of displease in a sentence

  • After the hurricane, the building was structurally sound but aesthetically displeasing.
  • While the flashy special effects were nice, the movie was aurally jarring, loud and displeasing in general to the ear.
  • Beyond that, Schumer’s threat was Trumpian—a judge who displeases me will pay a price.

All 16 example sentences with displease

Synonyms of displease

Antonyms

Forms of displease

third-person singular presentdispleases
present participledispleasing
past participledispleased
pastdispleased

Past tense of displease: displeased

Origin of displease

English dis- + please, from Middle English displesen, from Anglo-Norman despleisir, desplere, from Old French desplere (des- + plere).

Words formed from displease

Words that rhyme with displease

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Questions about displease

What does displease mean?
Displease means to make not pleased; to cause a feeling of disapprobation or dislike in; to be disagreeable to; to vex slightly.
What is displease in Urdu?
Displease in Urdu is دل کھٹا کرنا, ناخوش کرنا, رلانا. See Displease meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is displease?
Displease is a verb.
How do you pronounce displease?
Displease is pronounced /dɪsˈpliːz/.
What is the past tense of displease?
The past tense of displease is displeased.

Words near displease in the dictionary

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

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: displease (page history and authors); displease (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); displease (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); displease (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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