| 单词 | displease |
| 释义 | displease (once / 334 pages) v When you displease someone, you disappoint them or make them unhappy. Your dog's loud barking at 5 AM is sure to displease your neighbors. The prefix dis- is often used to signify the opposite of something, and displease is no exception: it means to do the opposite of pleasing someone. Your terrible grades will displease your parents and your teachers, not to mention you, and being served your least favorite foods at your birthday dinner will also displease you. Please has a Latin root, placere, "be acceptable, be liked, or be approved." WORD FAMILYdisplease: displeased, displeases, displeasing, displeasure+/displeased: displeasedly/displeasing: displeasingly/displeasure: displeasures/pleasance: pleasances/pleasant: pleasance, pleasanter, pleasantest, pleasantly, pleasantness, unpleasant/pleasantness: pleasantnesses/please: displease, pleasant, pleased, pleaseed, pleaser, pleases, pleasing, pleasure/pleased: pleaseder, pleasedly/pleaser: pleasers/pleasing: pleasinger, pleasingly, pleasingness, pleasings, unpleasing/pleasurable: pleasurablest, pleasurably/pleasure: pleasurable, pleasures/unpleasant: unpleasanter, unpleasantest, unpleasantly, unpleasantness/unpleasantness: unpleasantnesses/unpleasing: unpleasingly, unpleasingness USAGE EXAMPLESWould this displease Bob Dylan, whom I would never desire to displease? The New Yorker(Dec 14, 2016) Siemens is also keen not to displease an important group of customers: machine-tool makers that use components from Siemens. Economist(Dec 01, 2016) They’re displeased that their vote is costing them relationships with family and friends. The Guardian(Nov 19, 2016) v give displeasure to Ant|Hypo delight, please give pleasure to or be pleasing to pleasegive satisfaction annoy, bother, chafe, devil, get at, get to, gravel, irritate, nark, nettle, rag, rile, vex cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations repel, repulsebe repellent to; cause aversion in dissatisfyfail to satisfy get, get under one's skinirritate eat into, fret, grate, ranklegnaw into; make resentful or angry peevecause to be annoyed, irritated, or resentful ruffletrouble or vex fretcause annoyance in beset, chevvy, chevy, chivvy, chivy, harass, harry, hassle, molest, plague, provokeannoy continually or chronically antagonise, antagonizeprovoke the hostility of churn up, disgust, nauseate, revolt, sickencause aversion in; offend the moral sense of put off, turn offcause to feel intense dislike or distaste discontentmake dissatisfied disgruntleput into a bad mood or into bad humour |
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