Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Not to one's liking; unpleasant or offensive.
- adjective Having a quarrelsome, bad-tempered manner.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Unsuitable; not conformable; not congruous.
- Unpleasing; offensive to the mind or to the senses; distasteful; repugnaut: as, one's manners may be disagreeable; food may be disagreeable to the taste.
- Synonyms Unpleasant, distasteful, unwelcome, ungrateful, obnoxious.
- noun A disagreeable thing.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not agreeable, conformable, or congruous; contrary; unsuitable.
- adjective Exciting repugnance; offensive to the feelings or senses; displeasing; unpleasant.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Not
agreeable ,conformable , orcongruous ;contrary ;unsuitable . - adjective Exciting
repugnance ;offensive to the feelings or senses;displeasing ;unpleasant .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective unpleasant to interact with
- adjective not to your liking
- adjective not agreeing with your tastes or expectations
Etymologies
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Examples
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"Let us hope we do not live to regret that decision," says General Jackson, responding to what he calls "disagreeable noises coming from Buenos Aires" as the 30th anniversary of the war approaches.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph Telegraph Staff 2012
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Similarly, if certain disagreeable behavior is “commonly found” on the Left, then it should be easy for you to pick fights with the Left when they actually exhibit the behavior.
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The president said he would bring a new tone to Washington, who insisted that "we can disagree without being disagreeable," is now backing an appointee who has repeatedly failed to meet that standard.
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North American lefties will rush to the defence of any artist or academic threatened with "censorship" by religious groups - well, Christians, anyway - but, save for a few honorable exceptions, they have been shamefully silent when speech they find remotely disagreeable is threatened.
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“I should be sorry to utter a word disagreeable to your feelings.”
Adam Bede 2004
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Though censured, the two Krishnas, however, spoke not a word disagreeable (to the dying hero).
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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But when we use the word disagreeable by itself, our meaning is understood to be, that in calling the thing disagreeable we have said the worst of it.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 58, August, 1862 Various
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Una and Faith exchanged looks which said, "Now something disagreeable is coming."
Rainbow Valley Lucy Maud 1919
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The fear of being disagreeable is a great bugbear to a girl, as this artful young man well knew, and Rose fell into the trap at once, for Aunt Jane was far from being her model, though she could not help respecting her worth.
Rose in Bloom 1876
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These houses are often good, but sometimes exceedingly disagreeable from the miscellaneous nature of the occupants.
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