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unˈpleasant, a.
[un-1 7.]
1. Not pleasant, displeasing:
a. To the senses.
1538Elyot, Rancidus,..vnsauery, or vnpleasaunt. 1551Turner Herbal i. 109 The colour is vnpleasanter and blacker. 1575Gasgoigne Making of Verse §5 Wordes of many syllables do cloye a verse and make it unpleasant. 1585T. Washington tr. Nicholay's Voy. iii. i. 69 b, An euill fauoured and vnpleasant harmonie. 1611Florio, Inameno, vnpleasant to the view. 1667Dryden Dram. Poesy Ess. (ed. Ker) I. 69 Does not the eye pass from an unpleasant object to a pleasant in a much shorter time than is required to this? 1725De Foe Voy. round World (1840) 253 In⁓numberable rills..falling from the cliffs, making a barbarous and unpleasant sound. 1796F. Burney Camilla IV. 223 The aspect of Mrs. Mittin..was..unpleasant to him. 1879Lubbock Sci. Lect. ii. 32 Flies prefer unpleasant smells, such as those of decaying meat. 1892Photogr. Ann. II. 103 A dilute solution..changes the colour of the image to a not unpleasant brown.
Comb.1869H. F. Tozer Highl. Turkey II. 109 A most unpleasant-looking piece of water, marshy and full of reeds.
b. To the mind or feelings.
1535Coverdale Ecclus. xxii. 6 Euen so is the..doctryne of wyszdome euer vnpleasaunt vnto fooles. a1568R. Ascham Scholem. ii. (Arb.) 132 Preceptes in all Authors..without applying vnto them the Imitation of examples, be..barrayn, vnfruitfull and vnpleasant. 1596Shakes. Merch. V. iii. ii. 254 The vnpleasant'st words That euer blotted paper. a1679Hobbes Rhet. i. xi. (1681) 28 Unpleasant are those things, which proceed from Necessity, as Cares, Study, Contentions. c1721Mrq. Tullibardine in 10th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. I. 126 Tho' your Majesty permitts me to wryte even on ane unpleasant subject. 1762Goldsm. Nash 200 That a man of pleasure leads the most unpleasant life in the world. 1839Thirlwall Greece III. xxvi. 419 To execute a commission which would require them to deliver many unpleasant truths. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) I. 466 All of us..had an unpleasant feeling at hearing them say this.
2. Unentertaining, unfacetious.
1712Spect. No. 408 ⁋4 It would be no unpleasant Notion, to consider the several Species of Brutes, into which we may imagine that Tyrants..might be changed. 1768Junius Lett. (1850) II. 220 In his assertions..there is something really not unpleasant... It puts me in mind of the consulship which Caligula intended for his horse.
3. Unamiable.
1654[see unpleasing ppl. a. b].
Hence unˈpleasantish a.
1827Hood Parthian Glance 28, I can't but..pronounce ‘Heads or tails’ with a child, an unpleasantish game. 1844― Etching Moralised 229 'Tis a rather unpleasantish job. |