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disagreeable, a. (n.)|dɪsəˈgriːəb(ə)l|
Also 5 dys-.
[a. F. désagréable (13th c. in Hatz.-Darm.), f. dés- (dis- 4) + agréable agreeable.]
A. adj.
†1. Not in agreement; characterized by difference or incongruity; disagreeing, discordant, at variance. Const. to, with. Obs.
c1400Rom. Rose 4717 It [love] is Carybdis perillous Disagreeable and gracious, It is discordaunce that can accord, And accordaunce to discord. 1494Fabyan Chron. vii. ccxxxiv. 270 But..I se the mater dysagreable to other wryters, and also thynke that moche therof is fayned. 1538Coverdale Ded. to N.T., It was disagreeable to my former translation in English. 1563Golding Cæsar Pref. (1565) 1 Cæsar in hys descryption of Gallia..may seeme dysagreable wyth other authors. 1651Hobbes Leviath. i. xv. 79 What is conformable or disagreeable to Reason, in the actions of common life. 1725Bailey Erasm. Colloq. 407 Compare their Lives and nothing can be more disagreeable. 1759Johnson Rasselas xxviii. (1787) 78 The obstinate contests of disagreeable virtues. 1766F. Blackburne Confessional 262 In determining what is the proper sense and extent of the Articles, and what shall be judged agreeable or disagreeable to them.
2. Not in accordance with one's taste or liking; exciting displeasure or disgust; unpleasing, unpleasant, offensive.
1698Fryer Acc. E. India & P. 254 Yet he found it disagreeable, because the Nights now were as intensely Cold, as the Days were Hot. 1705W. Bosman Guinea 230 This is such a horrible ugly Creature, that I don't believe any thing besides so very disagreeable is to be found. 1754E. Darwin Let. to Dr. Okes in Dallas Life (1879), Yesterday's post brought me the disagreeable news of my father's departure out of this sinful world. 1794S. Williams Vermont 90 This animal is without any ill scent, or disagreeable effluvia. 1838James Robber iv, Your society is any thing but disagreeable to me. 1841–44Emerson Ess., Prudence Wks. (Bohn) I. 100 In regard to disagreeable..things, prudence does not consist in evasion..but in courage.
3. a. Of persons: Of unpleasant temper or humour; actively unamiable; offensive.
It ranges from an active sense, of which the person in question is the subject, as in quot. 1474, to a subjective one of which the person in question is the object, both being often present.
[1474Caxton Chesse (1481) D viij b, Not plesyd but disagreable whan they haue receyued the yefte.] 1710–11Swift Lett. (1767) III. 109, I dined to-day with my mistress Butler, who grows very disagreeable. 1825J. Neal Bro. Jonathan II. 323 A very disagreeable man was here. 1875W. S. Hayward Love Agst. World 11 My cousin is dreadfully disagreeable.
b. Uncomfortable, in an unpleasant position.
1827J. F. Cooper Prairie xii, We are disagreeable about his camping on the prairie, instead of coming in to his own bed. 1836Knickerbocker VIII. 151 Had I not become accustomed to such dangers, I should have felt very disagreeable. 1844P. Parley's Ann. V. 180 The King felt quite disagreeable. The Russians might drop in upon him very unceremoniously.
B. as n. (Cf. agreeable 6.)
†a. A disagreeable person. Obs.
1829C. A. Bowles Church Yards II. 242 Whatever some superior-minded disagreeables may say to the contrary.
b. A disagreeable thing or experience; esp. in pl.
1781Cowper Let. 4 Feb., Some disagreeables and awkwardnesses would probably have attended your interview. 1797Holcroft tr. Stolberg's Trav. (ed. 2) II. xlii. 64 The Greek artists are..careful to keep the disagreeable out of sight. 1804W. Irving Life & Lett. (1864) I. iv. 78, I am seasoned..to the disagreeables from my Canada journey of last summer. 1849C. Brontë Shirley ix. 127 When the disagreeables of life—its work and privations were in question. |