disagreeable

Word family

dis·a·gree·a·ble /ˌdɪsəˈɡriːəbəl◂/ adjectiveadj formal

1 UNPLEASANTnot at all enjoyable or pleasant 令人不快的，不合意的，討厭的 OPP agreeable

a disagreeable job

不稱心的工作

disagreeable to

The conversation was disagreeable to him.

這番交談令他不快。

In everyday English, people usually say someone or something is not very nice rather than disagreeable: 在日常英語中,表示某人或某事不好一般說 not very nice ,而不說 disagreeable

It’s not a very nice job.

這不是一份很好的工作。

2 BAD-TEMPEREDunfriendly and bad-tempered 不友好的；脾氣壞的 OPP agreeable

a rude, disagreeable woman

粗魯、壞脾氣的女人

—disagreeably adverbadv

Examples from the Corpus

disagreeable• It's impossible to have a normal conversation with your father - he's always so disagreeable.• It never rendered him mean or even disagreeable.• I expect he was telling a tale, but even this made him a very disagreeable character.• Ricardo had forecast a disagreeable fate for most of mankind.• The landlord is an extremely disagreeable man. Have as little to do with him as possible.• He's the most disagreeable man I've ever met.• Snapping out of this disagreeable mood will release tensions in everyone.• I have to admit I find the name a little disagreeable on the aesthetic front.• At his request, I had written the preface, and that preface had involved me in a most disagreeable situation.• a very disagreeable task• Aspects of his work, his life style, are disagreeable to him in the extreme.• This turbidity is sometimes beneficial but also curtails the transparency of the water and is therefore largely disagreeable to the aquarist.

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Corpus

TOEFL BNC: 14167 COCA: 19879

disagreeable

Not pleasant and enjoyable: unpleasant, bad, awful...

Impolite and rude: rude, impolite, insolent...

Unfriendly: unfriendly, cold, hostile...

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