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What (who) is unpleasant - definition
unpleasant
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
• unpleasantly
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
• unpleasantly
Melissa laughed unpleasantly...
The Heidlers are an unpleasantly hypocritical pair.
? pleasantly
ADV
• unpleasantness
There had to be a reason for the unpleasantness some people habitually displayed.
N-UNCOUNT
unpleasant
¦ adjective not pleasant; disagreeable.
Derivatives
unpleasantly adverb
unpleasant
adj.
1) unpleasant to (he is unpleasant to everyone)
2) unpleasant to + inf. (it's unpleasant to talk to him = it's unpleasant talking to him = he's unpleasant to talk to = he's an unpleasant person to talk to)
Examples of use of unpleasant
1. Unpleasant side effects include vomiting and diarrhoea.
2. " "These were really unpleasant people – nasty sorts.
3. The downside was the unpleasant atmosphere created.
4. Now the same unpleasant thing is happening to the patriots.
5. All this recounting of unpleasant history, I mean.