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单词 disagreeable
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Definition of disagreeable in English:

disagreeable

adjective dɪsəˈɡriːəb(ə)lˌdɪsəˈɡriəb(ə)l
  • 1Unpleasant or unenjoyable.

    a disagreeable thought
    aspects of his work are disagreeable to him
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The London Underground system finds ever more cunning ways to make itself disagreeable to the sorry traveller.
    • There had been such a rare and complete harmony between orchestra, soloists, conductor and audience that it seemed disagreeable to break the spell still binding everyone together.
    • If lying in the sun or listening to music gives us great pleasure, and dental drills and electrical shocks and nausea are very disagreeable, then it is hardly surprising that we seek out the former and try to avoid the latter.
    • The situation is disagreeable to Japan, but Tokyo has put up with it to avoid upsetting bilateral relations.
    • Eating meat is disagreeable to Thoreau's imagination, and his distaste of it is instinctual.
    • This, in turn, can enable a greater tolerance of values and beliefs that are normative within this subgroup but may be foreign or disagreeable to the clinician.
    • Some of Kraig's ideas may be disagreeable to some people.
    • It was disagreeable to me, but I did exercise it, and no other power can be exercised in that Country.
    • Some find it disagreeable to depend on others to go about their lives, while some feel neglected.
    • Your opinion, although disagreeable to me, is something that I risked my liberal life to protect.
    • Battles cost money that Pakistan can ill afford - they also have a nasty habit of escalating into something much more disagreeable.
    • If Americans sacked public officials after any tragic, scandalous or otherwise disagreeable wartime event - or even after a series of them - the United States would be paralyzed.
    • The words felt foul on his tongue, like the aftertaste of something disagreeable, but their impact was immediate.
    • At its simplest the aura may take the form of a familiar odour, or more commonly a disagreeable or even disgusting one.
    • Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
    • Meanwhile in Cardiff, an unpleasant political became a still more disagreeable labour situation rather quickly.
    • The deep-seated hatred can be understood, but this plastic thing on the surface, this hypocrisy is disagreeable, and we try to puncture that in the play.
    • It is easy to grant people the freedom to do what is agreeable to us; freedom is important only when it is the freedom for people to do what is disagreeable to others.
    • Same goes for thoughts, if those thoughts are disagreeable to me, I would not agree with them regardless of how honourable you are or how many others are willing to vouchsafe for you.
    • She had found something disagreeable in a story I'd written in the Listener about John before his death (unusually, for most find their objections to be more than singular).
    Synonyms
    unpleasant, displeasing, nasty, horrible, dreadful, horrid, frightful, abominable, odious, offensive, obnoxious, objectionable, repugnant, repulsive, repellent, revolting, disgusting, foul, vile, nauseating, sickening, hateful, detestable, distasteful, unsavoury, unpalatable
    1. 1.1 Unfriendly and bad-tempered.
      Henry was always a very disagreeable boy
      Example sentencesExamples
      • When that happened, which was surprisingly often, she was snappish and disagreeable.
      • It had never occurred to Gwyn that one person could be so rude and disagreeable.
      • Would the ‘mercenaries ‘really have been any more rowdy or disagreeable than other tourist parties from our fair isles?’
      • Alongside Mone's name, however, we are troubled to find that of Sir Alan Sugar, who was so disagreeable to Lynn Barber recently.
      • He is disagreeable, difficult and completely daft.
      • In complete contrast to our disagreeable dining companion, the duck liver parfait he ordered was rich and smooth.
      • I have often met your older sister and found her to be rude obnoxious and generally disagreeable.
      • He may be fat, disagreeable, lazy and offensive in almost all he does, but there is no denying just how loveable that makes him.
      • By turns disagreeable, petulant, and self-pitying, they have as a group failed their employees, their investors, and their customers.
      • Although he might be in culinary heaven - ‘If you're talking about food in France, you can't go wrong’ - his disagreeable kids are less than enthused.
      • ‘Isn't that for sure,’ Joe mumbled not knowing what she meant but never liked to be disagreeable to a woman.
      • We do, after all, have to coexist with our colleagues, even if we find some of them disagreeable if not downright objectionable - while regarding others with perhaps undeserved reverence.
      • A sceptical sports editor eventually agreed, although he was predictably disagreeable when what eventually materialised was a ‘Why Monty Should Consider Retiring’ column.
      • Nevertheless, it's unnecessarily disagreeable to suggest to his face that your interviewer actively wishes you ill.
      • That's something that a lot of people say is very important, because it creates a situation where people can disagree without being disagreeable.
      Synonyms
      bad-tempered, ill-tempered, ill-natured, ill-humoured, curmudgeonly, cross, crabbed, irritable, grumpy, peevish, snappish, petulant, sulky, sullen, prickly
      unfriendly, unpleasant, nasty, mean, mean-spirited
      rude, surly, discourteous, impolite, brusque, abrupt, difficult, contrary, churlish, disobliging
      cruel, vicious, spiteful
      informal grouchy

Derivatives

  • disagreeableness

  • noun ˌdɪsəˈɡriːəb(ə)lnəsˌdɪsəˈɡriəbəlnəs
    • We children forgot a lot of the disagreeableness when the wagon was unloaded and we saw the good things to eat and the yards and yards of calico and outing flannel that Mother had bought to make us new clothes…
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Some faculty members viewed such episodes as part of the eccentricity and disagreeableness that occur in academic life.
      • Surely, since we would not intentionally create such disagreeableness, it must be the product of irresistible unconscious forces.
      • Finally, he found that mothers’ agreeableness during mother-child game-playing tasks was negatively correlated with children's disagreeableness during child-peer interactions.
  • disagreeably

  • adverb ˌdɪsəˈɡriːəbli
    • It is really surprising what a number of cars will smoke disagreeably.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • They rarely focus on textbooks but always introduce something awfully fresh and disagreeably insightful.
      • But I was surprised - again disagreeably - when the vicar announced that the proceeds of the collection would be devoted to the diocesan fund for historic churches.
      • But just as she was about to hang up and try again, the screen flashed red, the speaker clicking and buzzing disagreeably and it struggled for some kind of connection.
      • It was a line-up that gave off an odour of complacency or perhaps, more disagreeably, of indifference to the prize at stake.

Origin

Late Middle English (in the sense 'discordant, incongruous'): from Old French desagreable, based on agreer 'agree'.

 
 

Definition of disagreeable in US English:

disagreeable

adjectiveˌdisəˈɡrēəb(ə)lˌdɪsəˈɡriəb(ə)l
  • 1Not pleasant or enjoyable.

    some aspects of his work are disagreeable to him
    another disagreeable thought came to him
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Some find it disagreeable to depend on others to go about their lives, while some feel neglected.
    • It is easy to grant people the freedom to do what is agreeable to us; freedom is important only when it is the freedom for people to do what is disagreeable to others.
    • Eating meat is disagreeable to Thoreau's imagination, and his distaste of it is instinctual.
    • She had found something disagreeable in a story I'd written in the Listener about John before his death (unusually, for most find their objections to be more than singular).
    • Meanwhile in Cardiff, an unpleasant political became a still more disagreeable labour situation rather quickly.
    • At its simplest the aura may take the form of a familiar odour, or more commonly a disagreeable or even disgusting one.
    • This, in turn, can enable a greater tolerance of values and beliefs that are normative within this subgroup but may be foreign or disagreeable to the clinician.
    • The words felt foul on his tongue, like the aftertaste of something disagreeable, but their impact was immediate.
    • There had been such a rare and complete harmony between orchestra, soloists, conductor and audience that it seemed disagreeable to break the spell still binding everyone together.
    • Some of Kraig's ideas may be disagreeable to some people.
    • The London Underground system finds ever more cunning ways to make itself disagreeable to the sorry traveller.
    • It was disagreeable to me, but I did exercise it, and no other power can be exercised in that Country.
    • Your opinion, although disagreeable to me, is something that I risked my liberal life to protect.
    • Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
    • If lying in the sun or listening to music gives us great pleasure, and dental drills and electrical shocks and nausea are very disagreeable, then it is hardly surprising that we seek out the former and try to avoid the latter.
    • The deep-seated hatred can be understood, but this plastic thing on the surface, this hypocrisy is disagreeable, and we try to puncture that in the play.
    • Battles cost money that Pakistan can ill afford - they also have a nasty habit of escalating into something much more disagreeable.
    • Same goes for thoughts, if those thoughts are disagreeable to me, I would not agree with them regardless of how honourable you are or how many others are willing to vouchsafe for you.
    • If Americans sacked public officials after any tragic, scandalous or otherwise disagreeable wartime event - or even after a series of them - the United States would be paralyzed.
    • The situation is disagreeable to Japan, but Tokyo has put up with it to avoid upsetting bilateral relations.
    Synonyms
    unpleasant, displeasing, nasty, horrible, dreadful, horrid, frightful, abominable, odious, offensive, obnoxious, objectionable, repugnant, repulsive, repellent, revolting, disgusting, foul, vile, nauseating, sickening, hateful, detestable, distasteful, unsavoury, unpalatable
    1. 1.1 Unfriendly and bad-tempered.
      Henry was always a very disagreeable boy
      Example sentencesExamples
      • A sceptical sports editor eventually agreed, although he was predictably disagreeable when what eventually materialised was a ‘Why Monty Should Consider Retiring’ column.
      • That's something that a lot of people say is very important, because it creates a situation where people can disagree without being disagreeable.
      • In complete contrast to our disagreeable dining companion, the duck liver parfait he ordered was rich and smooth.
      • We do, after all, have to coexist with our colleagues, even if we find some of them disagreeable if not downright objectionable - while regarding others with perhaps undeserved reverence.
      • By turns disagreeable, petulant, and self-pitying, they have as a group failed their employees, their investors, and their customers.
      • Would the ‘mercenaries ‘really have been any more rowdy or disagreeable than other tourist parties from our fair isles?’
      • It had never occurred to Gwyn that one person could be so rude and disagreeable.
      • Nevertheless, it's unnecessarily disagreeable to suggest to his face that your interviewer actively wishes you ill.
      • He is disagreeable, difficult and completely daft.
      • Although he might be in culinary heaven - ‘If you're talking about food in France, you can't go wrong’ - his disagreeable kids are less than enthused.
      • When that happened, which was surprisingly often, she was snappish and disagreeable.
      • ‘Isn't that for sure,’ Joe mumbled not knowing what she meant but never liked to be disagreeable to a woman.
      • Alongside Mone's name, however, we are troubled to find that of Sir Alan Sugar, who was so disagreeable to Lynn Barber recently.
      • I have often met your older sister and found her to be rude obnoxious and generally disagreeable.
      • He may be fat, disagreeable, lazy and offensive in almost all he does, but there is no denying just how loveable that makes him.
      Synonyms
      bad-tempered, ill-tempered, ill-natured, ill-humoured, curmudgeonly, cross, crabbed, irritable, grumpy, peevish, snappish, petulant, sulky, sullen, prickly

Origin

Late Middle English (in the sense ‘discordant, incongruous’): from Old French desagreable, based on agreer ‘agree’.

 
 
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