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Unpleasant ʌnˈpleznt Made Adjective Experience/Surprise/Task Minerals Water Drink

Word3 unpleasant
WordType (adjective)
Phonetic /ʌnˈpleznt/ /ʌnˈpleznt/
Example
  • an unpleasant experience/surprise/task
  • the minerals in the water made it unpleasant to drink.
  • it can be unpleasant to sit next to a group of people arguing.
  • it must have been unpleasant for her neighbours to be exposed to the constant loud music.
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unpleasant

(adjective)/ʌnˈpleznt/ /ʌnˈpleznt/
  1. not pleasant or comfortable
    • SYNONYM disagreeable
      https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/disagreeable
    • an unpleasant experience/surprise/task
    • The minerals in the water made it unpleasant to drink.
    • It can be unpleasant to sit next to a group of people arguing.
    • It must have been unpleasant for her neighbours to be exposed to the constant loud music.
    • Torrential made conditions unpleasant for both players and spectators.
    • What then took place was a deeply unpleasant attack.
    • an unpleasant truth/fact/reality/consequence
    • an unpleasant feeling/sensation/memory
    • an unpleasant smell/odour/taste

    Extra Examples

    • His clothes smelled most unpleasant.
    • The overall feeling was a strange mixture of sensations, not altogether unpleasant.
    • tests which are unpleasant for patients
    • There's an unpleasant smell coming from that cupboard.
  2. not kind, friendly or polite
    • He was very unpleasant to me.
    • You don't have to be so unpleasant about it. I said I was sorry.
    • She said some very unpleasant things about you.

    Extra Examples

    • a thoroughly unpleasant man
    • There was an unpleasant atmosphere in the room.
    • Things started to get unpleasant when the police were called.
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