unpleasant
/ʌnˈplɛzn̩t/
unpleasant adjective: not pleasant.
Adjective
unpleasant (comparative unpleasanter or more unpleasant, superlative unpleasantest or most unpleasant)
- Not pleasant.
- O sweet Portia, / Here are a few of the unpleasant’st words / That ever blotted paper!c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
- It was indeed one admirable piece of Conduct in the said Magistrates, that the Streets were kept constantly clear, and free from all manner of frightful Objects, dead Bodies, or any such things as were indecent or unpleasant, unless where any Body fell down suddenly or died in the Streets […]1722, Daniel Defoe, A Journal of the Plague Year, London: E. Nutt, page 214
- Synonyms:
- disagreeable, distasteful, abhorrant, abhorrent, bad, sickly, mean, infernal, bum, horrid
unpleasant meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
unpleasant in Hindi
- not pleasant
- अप्रिय apriya
unpleasant in Tamil
- unpleasant or bad smell
- வாடை vāṭai
unpleasant in Marathi
- अप्रिय
unpleasant in Urdu
- unpleasant, disagreeable
- کڑوا kaṛvā
More languagesFewer languages
- unpleasant in Bengali
- অপ্রীতিকর, বিরক্তিকর
- unpleasant in Telugu
- చవికాని cavikāni, కటువు kaṭuvu
- unpleasant in Malayalam
- അസുഖകരമായ
- unpleasant in Kannada
- ಒಗ್ಗದ, ಪೆಡಸಾದ
- unpleasant in Punjabi
- ਵਿਹੁ ਵਰਗਾ vihu vargā
- unpleasant in Odia
- ଅପ୍ରୀତିକର
- unpleasant in Sanskrit
- अश्रीर aśrīra
- unpleasant in Persian
- ناخوشایند nâxušâyand
Examples of unpleasant in a sentence
- The very circumstance, in its unpleasantest form, which they would each have been most anxious to avoid, had fallen on them.1811, [Jane Austen], chapter 35, in Sense and Sensibility […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] C[harles] Roworth...
- And I dipped into novels so like the unpleasanter parts of my own life that they might just as well have been autobiographies.1921, Walter de la Mare, “Chapter 37”, in Memoirs of a Midget:
Synonyms of unpleasant
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Antonyms
Forms of unpleasant
| comparative | unpleasanter |
|---|---|
| comparative | more unpleasant |
| superlative | unpleasantest |
| superlative | most unpleasant |
Origin of unpleasant
From Middle English unplesaunt, equivalent to un- + pleasant.
Words formed from unpleasant
Questions about unpleasant
- What does unpleasant mean?
- Unpleasant means not pleasant.
- What is unpleasant in Hindi?
- Unpleasant in Hindi is अप्रिय (apriya). See Unpleasant meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use unpleasant in a sentence?
- The very circumstance, in its unpleasantest form, which they would each have been most anxious to avoid, had fallen on them.
- What part of speech is unpleasant?
- Unpleasant is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce unpleasant?
- Unpleasant is pronounced /ʌnˈplɛzn̩t/.
Words near unpleasant in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: unpleasant (page history and authors); வாடை (Tamil) (page history and authors); unpleasant (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); کڑوا (Urdu) (page history and authors); unpleasant (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); కటువు (Telugu) (page history and authors); unpleasant (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); unpleasant (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ਵਿਹੁ ਵਰਗਾ (Punjabi) (page history and authors); unpleasant (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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