unpleasant

/ʌn'pleznt/

Thân thiện

The child made an unpleasant face after tasting the bitter medicine.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Causing discomfort, annoyance, or displeasure; not pleasant or agreeable. It describes something that is disagreeable to the senses, the mind, or one's feelings.

Usage

• The adjective "unpleasant" is used to modify nouns, describing things, situations, experiences, or people that are not enjoyable or are offensive in some way.
• It is a gradable adjective, so it can be used with modifiers like "very," "rather," or "extremely."
• Common collocations include: unpleasant smell, unpleasant experience, unpleasant surprise, unpleasant person, unpleasant feeling, unpleasant task.

Examples

• Describing a Sensation:
  • The room had an unpleasant odor of stale smoke.
  • She woke up with an unpleasant taste in her mouth.
• Describing a Situation or Experience:
  • It was an unpleasant surprise to find the store closed.
  • The meeting took an unpleasant turn when they began arguing.
• Describing a Person or Trait:
  • He can be quite unpleasant when he's tired.
  • Her unpleasant remarks upset everyone.

Advanced Usage

• "To have an unpleasantness" (formal/dated): To have a disagreement or argument.
  • I hope we can settle this matter without any further unpleasantness.
• "The unpleasant truth/fact": Used to introduce a truth that is disagreeable or hard to accept.
  • We must face the unpleasant fact that our project has failed.

Variants and Related Words

• Unpleasantly (adverb): In an unpleasant manner.
  • The weather turned unpleasantly cold.
• Unpleasantness (noun): The state or quality of being unpleasant; a disagreeable situation or incident.
  • I want to avoid any unpleasantness at the family gathering.
• Pleasant (adjective): The direct antonym, meaning giving a sense of happy satisfaction or enjoyment.

Synonyms

• Disagreeable: Not agreeable or pleasant.
• Distasteful: Causing dislike or aversion; offensive.
• Nasty: Very bad or unpleasant (often stronger than "unpleasant").
• Offensive: Causing someone to feel resentful, upset, or annoyed.
• Repellent: Causing disgust or distaste.

Antonyms

• Pleasant: Giving a sense of happy satisfaction or enjoyment.
• Agreeable: Enjoyable and pleasurable; pleasant.
• Delightful: Causing delight; charming.
• Enjoyable: Giving pleasure.

Idioms and Fixed Phrases

• An unpleasant pill to swallow: A metaphor for an unpleasant fact or situation that one must accept.
  • Losing the championship was an unpleasant pill to swallow for the team.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. disagreeable to the senses, to the mind, or feelings
   • an unpleasant personality
   • unpleasant repercussions
   • unpleasant odors