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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