disagreeable

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16
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19
Letters
12
Pronunciation
/dɪsəˈɡɹiː.əbəl/ (UK)
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/dɪsəˈɡɹiː.əbəl/ (UK) · /dɪsəˈɡɹɪbəl/ (UK) · /dɪsəˈɡɹi.əbəl/ (US)

Definition of disagreeable

3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Causing repugnance; unpleasant to the feelings or senses; displeasing.
    “disagreeable weather”
    “disagreeable person”
    “disagreeable attitude”
    “disagreeable taste”
    “That which is disagreeable to one is many times agreeable to another, or disagreeable in a less degree.”
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adj

  1. Causing repugnance; unpleasant to the feelings or senses; displeasing.
    “disagreeable weather”
    “disagreeable person”
    “disagreeable attitude”
    “disagreeable taste”
    “That which is disagreeable to one is many times agreeable to another, or disagreeable in a less degree.”
  2. (archaic)Not suitable; that does not conform or fit.
    “The first author I shall cite is Justin Martyr, who is not only silent about infant-baptism, as are all the fathers before him, but says what is inconsistent with it; for the reason he assigns, as what he had received from the apostles themselves, why baptism was instituted, is altogether incompatible and disagreeable thereunto.”
    “Now to say, that justice is opposed to forgiveness, when by forgiveness we mean the entire cure of sin and misery; is to say that justice chooses that to remain forever, which is perfectly disagreeable to itself.”
    “We cannot but judge it disagreeable with the spirit and principles of the gospel, and an encroachment upon the divine prerogative and the undoubted rights of mankind, to punish any for their conscientious and peaceable dissent from the established way of religion, while they are not justly chargeable with any immorality, or what is plainly destructive of civil society.”

noun

  1. Something or someone displeasing; anything that is disagreeable.
    “The disagreeables of travelling are necessary evils, to be encountered for the sake of the agreeables of resting and looking round you.”

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Etymology

Inherited from Middle English disagreable, from Middle French desagreable, from Old French desagraable (compare French désagréable). By surface analysis, dis- + agreeable.

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