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# unpleasant

adjective (unpleasant); adverb unpleasantly; noun unpleasantness

«unpleasant» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Unpleasant means not nice or not enjoyable: an unpleasant smell, unpleasant weather. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unpleasant/#m1)
2. An unpleasant person is unkind or rude. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unpleasant/#m2)
3. (euphemism) «Unpleasantness» can be a polite word for a fight, a quarrel or a war. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unpleasant/#m3)

### In the lessons

In everyday life and stories it describes bad smells, tastes, feelings, weather and people. In science lessons, some chemicals have unpleasant smells (a safety sign). Phrases: an unpleasant surprise, unpleasant to touch, rather unpleasant.

### Examples

- The rotten eggs had a very unpleasant smell. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unpleasant/#x1)
- It was an unpleasant day: cold, wet and windy. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unpleasant/#x2)
- Don't be unpleasant to your brother. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unpleasant/#x3)
- Getting a needle at the doctor's is unpleasant, but it keeps you healthy. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unpleasant/#x4)
- I had an unpleasant surprise when I found a slug in my shoe. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unpleasant/#x5)
- After some unpleasantness at the meeting, everyone went home. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unpleasant/#x6)
- There another unpleasant surprise awaited him. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unpleasant/#x7)

### Note

«Un-» + «pleasant». Use «an» before it: «an unpleasant smell». Similar: nasty, horrible, disagreeable (formal). Opposite: pleasant.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «unpleasant» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unpleasant/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«unpleasant» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/unpleasant.html) on Mova free.