disagreeable

adj
/dɪsəˈɡɹiː.əbəl/UK/dɪsəˈɡɹi.əbəl/US

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English disagreable, from Middle French desagreable, from Old French desagraable (compare French désagréable). By surface analysis, dis- + agreeable.

  1. derived from desagraable
  2. derived from desagreable
  3. inherited from disagreable

Definitions

  1. Causing repugnance

    Causing repugnance; unpleasant to the feelings or senses; displeasing.

    • disagreeable weather
    • disagreeable person
    • disagreeable attitude
  2. Not suitable

    Not suitable; that does not conform or fit.

    • Now to say, that justice is opposed to forgiveness, when by forgiveness we mean the entire cure of sin and misery; is to say that justice chooses that to remain forever, which is perfectly disagreeable to itself.
  3. Something or someone displeasing

    Something or someone displeasing; anything that is disagreeable.

    • The disagreeables of travelling are necessary evils, to be encountered for the sake of the agreeables of resting and looking round you.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at disagreeable. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01disagreeable02displeasing03dislikable04displeasure05displeased06displease

A definitional loop anchored at disagreeable. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

6 hops · closes at disagreeable

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA