UNPLEASANT


Meaning of UNPLEASANT in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ʌnplez(ə)nt ]

1.

If something is unpleasant , it gives you bad feelings, for example by making you feel upset or uncomfortable.

The symptoms can be uncomfortable, unpleasant and serious...

The vacuum has an unpleasant smell...

It was a very unpleasant and frightening attack.

≠ pleasant

ADJ

• un‧pleas‧ant‧ly

The water moved darkly around the body, unpleasantly thick and brown...

The smell was unpleasantly strong...

My heart was hammering unpleasantly.

≠ pleasantly

ADV : ADV adj , ADV with v

2.

An unpleasant person is very unfriendly and rude.

She thought him an unpleasant man...

Don’t start giving me problems otherwise I’ll have to be very unpleasant indeed.

...a thoroughly unpleasant person.

≠ pleasant

ADJ

• un‧pleas‧ant‧ly

Melissa laughed unpleasantly...

The Heidlers are an unpleasantly hypocritical pair.

≠ pleasantly

ADV

• un‧pleas‧ant‧ness

There had to be a reason for the unpleasantness some people habitually displayed.

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