unpleasant

US: /ənˈpɫɛzənt/
UK: /ʌnplˈɛzənt/


English Vietnamese dictionary


unpleasant /ʌn'pleznt/
  • tính từ
    • khó ưa, xấu, khó chịu, đáng ghét
      • unpleasant weather: thời tiết xấu

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