disagreeable

CEFRB2

/dɪsəˈɡɹiː.əbəl/

adjective

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adjective
Unpleasant or difficult to like.
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adjective
Extra detail
Not suitable; that does not conform or fit.

Examples

There is no more disagreeable thing than this.
Tom watched them hurry through the doors, a disagreeable expression on his face.

At a glance

Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

Senses: 4
Parts of speech: 1
Citations: 5

Also pronounced

/dɪsəˈɡɹɪbəl/

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adjective

Extra meanings

Something or someone displeasing; anything that is disagreeable.
Causing repugnance; unpleasant to the feelings or senses; displeasing.

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In context

disagreeable attitude
disagreeable person
disagreeable weather

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That which is disagreeable to one is many times agreeable to another, or disagreeable in a less degree.
1722, William Wollaston, The Religion of Nature Delineated
The disagreeables of travelling are necessary evils, to be encountered for the sake of the agreeables of resting and looking round you.
1855, Blackwood's magazine, volume 77, page 331
The first author I shall cite is Justin Martyr, who is not only silent about infant-baptism, as are all the fathers before him, but says what is inconsistent with it; for the reason he assigns, as what he had received from the apostles themselves, why baptism was instituted, is altogether incompatible and disagreeable thereunto.
1738, Grantham Killingworth, A Supplement to the Sermons Lately Preached at Salters-Hall Against Popery, page 54
Now to say, that justice is opposed to forgiveness, when by forgiveness we mean the entire cure of sin and misery; is to say that justice chooses that to remain forever, which is perfectly disagreeable to itself.
1824, Gospel Advocate - Volume 1, page 140
We cannot but judge it disagreeable with the spirit and principles of the gospel, and an encroachment upon the divine prerogative and the undoubted rights of mankind, to punish any for their conscientious and peaceable dissent from the established way of religion, while they are not justly chargeable with any immorality, or what is plainly destructive of civil society.
1871, Isaac Backus, A History of New England with Particular Reference to the Denomination of Christians Called Baptists, page 466

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Origin

adjective

Inherited from Middle English disagreable, from Middle French desagreable, from Old French desagraable (compare French désagréable). By surface analysis, dis- + agreeable.

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adjective

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adjective

The new manager's blank attitude made everyone in the office avoid him.