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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
unpleasant
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an annoying/unpleasant/nasty habit
▪ He had the unpleasant habit of eating with his mouth open.
an unpleasant/nasty surprise
▪ We don’t want any unpleasant surprises.
bad/unpleasant/horrible etc
▪ The smell in the shed was awful.
nasty/unpleasant
▪ Some tablets have a nasty taste.
strong/unpleasant/pungent/offensive etc odour
▪ obnoxious odours from a factory
unpleasant
▪ I felt a rather unpleasant sensation in my chest.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
▪ If Madreidetic's anything like as unpleasant as their language, why should I let them get away with piracy?
▪ He was also cynical enough to believe that any other woman might be as unpleasant to live with.
▪ Most predators probably have to sample and kill at least one wasp or bee before they learn to identify it as unpleasant.
extremely
▪ Body odour Like halitosis, body odour can be extremely unpleasant and embarrassing.
▪ Strangely, as lovingly as cilantro is embraced by many cooks, its unusual smell and flavor are extremely unpleasant to some.
▪ What we do know is that they can have extremely unpleasant effects.
more
▪ In so far as material conditions were more unpleasant, so human beings were more unpleasant.
▪ Without it, a painful 1991 for the contracting group would have been even more unpleasant.
▪ She squelched along in the muddy ruts left by the cattle, avoiding other more unpleasant tokens of their passage.
▪ Once again, it was the insidious, unseen nature of the threat which made it even more unpleasant.
most
▪ Who was this monstrous man who had just inflicted on her one of the most unpleasant encounters in her entire life?
▪ To this day beards summon up the most unpleasant associations.
▪ He said she had received threatening phone calls and that the whole experience had been most unpleasant.
▪ Poison ivy is a most unpleasant thing to have in your rectum. 3.
▪ This made working conditions most unpleasant, the nets becoming wet and heavy to handle.
▪ He had a distracted, drowned look, which was most unpleasant.
▪ Consequently the streets of these poorer areas are strewn with rubbish and in hot weather there is frequently a most unpleasant smell.
particularly
▪ At least the corpse wasn't particularly unpleasant.
▪ There was one particularly unpleasant scene, involving John Wilkinson, one of his own backbenchers.
▪ I am not suggesting, he wrote, that this period was particularly unpleasant.
▪ I've also included the particularly unpleasant articles - sheer malevolence - written by Jehova's Witnesses.
rather
▪ From the only letter which survives written by William Springett, one can only conclude that he was a rather unpleasant man.
▪ A rather unpleasant and damp flog came in its place.
▪ I felt that there was something, well, really rather unpleasant about him.
▪ The silver pince-nez gave him the air of a rather unpleasant schoolmaster.
▪ It had something of the quality of a full-time job - a rather unpleasant one.
so
▪ I nearly got up ad went away out of pity, I found this so unpleasant in a slip of a child.
▪ And the heat inside the mill would not be so unpleasant as the crippling cold endured by field-workers in winter.
▪ I want to be so unpleasant that he gets no pleasure from having me.
very
▪ He was amazingly patient, considering how very unpleasant and uncomfortable it must have been.
▪ Cancellation of the project would come as a very unpleasant and unexpected outcome.
▪ The stench filled the street, making shopping very unpleasant, and Environmental Health Officers received numerous complaints.
▪ How very unpleasant it can be, she reflected, to see oneself as others see one.
▪ It wasn't a suggestion but a statement of fact, and privately Robbie decided he must know some very unpleasant women.
▪ Other children find eating very unpleasant due to their organic disorder.
▪ Slurry stored for any length of time undergoes anaerobic fermentation - and becomes very unpleasant when disturbed.
■ NOUN
consequence
▪ Avoidance Learning Avoidance learning occurs when individuals learn to avoid or escape from unpleasant consequences.
▪ Eventually, though, the unpleasant consequences of this decision began to appear.
experience
▪ With a warm fire, and a hot meal, I began to recover from my unpleasant experiences.
▪ They have just suffered the unpleasant experience of having a three day annual convention of Young Farmers inflicted upon them.
▪ The octopus, he discovered, could learn to distinguish such shapes and patterns and avoid those coupled with the unpleasant experience.
▪ It was an unusual and unpleasant experience for him to feel on the defensive with his own children.
▪ There is evidence that both animals and humans prefer predictable rather than unpredictable reactions even when predictability is obtained from a very unpleasant experience.
odour
▪ There was an unpleasant odour blowing along our road all next day.
▪ Local authorities in industrial Teesside received many complaints about an unpleasant odour resembling decaying fish.
side
▪ But it's an expensive drug and it has unpleasant side effects.
▪ Banished from the official organizational history, the memory of these unpleasant side effects lingers in the form of unhealthy core beliefs.
▪ Other countries avoided the unpleasant side effects of reprocessing by storing the used fuel in dry stores.
▪ Commercial considerations presumably preclude any cruel or unpleasant side to his character.
smell
▪ This is generally caused by a decomposing body or bodies polluting the water and is usually accompanied by an unpleasant smell.
▪ Aside from the unpleasant smell, not much had changed.
▪ He was conscious of feeling cold in the van and of the unpleasant smell of petrol.
▪ In spite of the name, the flower does not have an unpleasant smell.
▪ He became suddenly aware of a strange, unpleasant smell.
▪ An unpleasant smell seemed to waft from the airline bag Mary always carried to school.
▪ Consequently the streets of these poorer areas are strewn with rubbish and in hot weather there is frequently a most unpleasant smell.
▪ The source of irritation may be flies, an unpleasant smell, ticklish grooming or an unskilled rider.
surprise
▪ All this has come as an unpleasant surprise to Hong Kong's officials.
▪ Those who shorted McAfee, however, had an unpleasant surprise.
▪ Now she knew she was in for an unpleasant surprise.
▪ Party officials' in the towns the unpleasant surprise of losing jobs to which they had become all too comfortably accustomed.
▪ This will reduce the possibility of unpleasant surprises.
▪ Conversation with her was a series of small unpleasant surprises.
▪ We may be in for an unpleasant surprise.
task
▪ The role of disciplinarian in the family is an unpleasant task.
▪ Those qualities enabled Coffman to handle several unpleasant tasks.
▪ Is there an unpleasant task waiting to be done?
things
▪ Its shape did unpleasant things to the eye.
▪ They say unpleasant things about young people today, but I find them so helpful.
▪ They swarmed up Parkside and boarded buses bound for Putney, shouting unpleasant things at the driver-conductor.
▪ Which all meant several unpleasant things.
▪ Says some more unpleasant things about his daughter.
truth
▪ Or when they refuse to face unpleasant truths, like good and evil.
▪ On close inspection, the unpleasant truths an organization is afraid to tell often turn out to be not all that abhorrent.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ an unpleasant odor
▪ Did she really say that? What an unpleasant person!
▪ Gabby had never seen two girls be so unpleasant to their mother.
▪ I had an unpleasant feeling that someone was following me.
▪ Phil and Jane argued the whole time, so it was a pretty unpleasant evening.
▪ Some animals give off an unpleasant odor that deters attackers.
▪ That man in the grocery store is always so unpleasant.
▪ Then Nel lost her temper and there was an extremely unpleasant scene in Kenwood's office.
▪ Undercooked potatoes taste unpleasant and can be harmful.
▪ You shouldn't have been so unpleasant to her - she was only trying to help.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ No crippling Whitewater developments or unpleasant October surprises appeared.
▪ Obviously the girls were liable to incur unpleasant finger or hand injuries from badly aimed blows.
▪ Older birds are often very tough and have an unpleasant aroma; they should be avoided whenever possible.
▪ The engineers were located at both the home office and the construction site, with an unpleasant journey between the two places.
▪ What falling ill means to a cat, or any other animal, is that something unpleasant is threatening it.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Unpleasant

Unpleasant \Un*pleas"ant\, a. Not pleasant; not amiable or agreeable; displeasing; offensive. -- Un*pleas"ant*ly, adv. -- Un*pleas"ant*ness, n.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
unpleasant

1530s, from un- (1) "not" + pleasant (adj.). Related: Unpleasantly.\n

Wiktionary
unpleasant

a. not pleasant.

WordNet
unpleasant
  1. adj. not pleasant; "an unpleasant personality"; "unpleasant repercussions"; "unpleasant odors" [ant: pleasant]

  2. causing disapproval or protest; "a vulgar and objectionable person" [syn: objectionable, obnoxious]

  3. very unpleasant or annoying

Usage examples of "unpleasant".

There are, furthermore, the accompanying symptoms of a coated tongue, bitter taste in the mouth, unpleasant eructations, scalding of the throat from regurgitation, offensive breath, sick headache, giddiness, disturbed sleep, sallow countenance, heart-burn, morbid craving after food, constant anxiety and apprehension, fancied impotency, and fickleness.

Permit no unnecessary accumulation of bottles, or any thing that can in any way render the room unpleasant.

The farmer, housewife, banker, merchant and laborer seem to be equally prone to the affliction and all who suffer have a great number of days rendered uncomfortable and unhappy by the presence of this most unpleasant affection.

Though perplexing to his palate, it was anything but unpleasant, despite the immediate and unsettling proximity of its ambulatory alien origins.

Kip, I hate to be a bother, but this analgesic is wearing off fast, and it has some unpleasant side effects.

He spoke for her, assuring the prince that she would take more care for the future and avoid such meetings, always unpleasant in a house.

She was reaching the unpleasant conclusion that she might need to cut some of the hair off as the only solution, when Barnet emerged from his room.

The prospect of an afternoon spent with a warm, good-humored admirer, a sound basting or two and a nice, fat lygol to take home afterwards, was by no means unpleasant.

He brandished the amulet again, his blue eyes alight with something unpleasant.

The mix of brewski and other things in the air was not unpleasant, but it was as alien as anything Orson Welles had ever invented.

The article went on to recount the sexual harassment brouhaha of the previous fall, which had not involved her at all but had made life at headquarters unpleasant for everyone for a month or two.

His position at Farthing had undergone a most unpleasant change, which he could only attribute to the orders he had been given by Inspector Stewart.

Funny how it was always those three who came to mind: Mago the crafty thief--and what the boy had been able to see of his actions through that tiny opening was strange to be sure--Safat, the unpleasant accomplice, and Malchus, the jealous lover.

He was to meet Link Merwell in the near future, and that meeting was to be productive of some decidedly unpleasant results.

Unless these excretions are removed, the glands become obstructed, their functions are arrested, and unpleasant odors arise.