unpleasant
US: /ənˈpɫɛzənt/
UK: /ʌnplˈɛzənt/
UK: /ʌnplˈɛzənt/
English Vietnamese dictionary
unpleasant /ʌn'pleznt/
- tính từ
- khó ưa, xấu, khó chịu, đáng ghét
- unpleasant weather: thời tiết xấu
- khó ưa, xấu, khó chịu, đáng ghét
Advanced English dictionary
+ adjective
1 not pleasant or comfortable: an unpleasant atmosphere / experience / feeling / smell + The minerals in the water made it unpleasant to drink.
2 ~ (to sb) not kind, friendly or polite: He was very unpleasant to me. + She said some very unpleasant things about you.
Antonym: PLEASANT
unpleasantly adverb: The drink is very sweet, but not unpleasantly so. + He laughed unpleasantly.
Collocation dictionary
VERBS
be, feel, look, seem, smell, sound, taste | become, get, turn
Things started to get unpleasant when their neighbours called in the police.
| make sth
He may make life unpleasant for the rest of us.
| find sb/sth
I found the atmosphere in there extremely unpleasant.
ADV.
decidedly, deeply, exceedingly, extremely, highly, most, particularly, very | thoroughly
a thoroughly unpleasant man
| not altogether, not entirely
The overall feeling was a strange mixture of sensations, not altogether unpleasant.
| fairly, pretty, quite, rather, slightly, somewhat
His clothes smelled pretty unpleasant.
PREP.
for
tests which are unpleasant for patients
| to
He was very unpleasant to my friends.
Concise English dictionary
adj.
+disagreeable to the senses, to the mind, or feelings
