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Definition of Disagreeable

1. Adjective. Not to your liking. "A disagreeable situation"

2. Adjective. Unpleasant to interact with. "A disagreeable old man"

3. Adjective. Not agreeing with your tastes or expectations. "A job temperamentally unsympathetic to him"

Definition of Disagreeable

1. a. Not agreeable, conformable, or congruous; contrary; unsuitable.

Definition of Disagreeable

1. Adjective. Not agreeable, conformable, or congruous; contrary; unsuitable. ¹

2. Adjective. Exciting repugnance; offensive to the feelings or senses; displeasing; unpleasant. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Disagreeable

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Disagreeable

disafforestation disafforested disafforesting disafforests disaggregatase disaggregate disaggregated disaggregates disaggregating disaggregation

disaggregations disaggregative disagree disagree with disagreeability disagreeable (current term) disagreeable chore disagreeable person disagreeable task disagreeable woman

disagreeableness disagreeablenesses disagreeably disagreeance disagreeances disagreed disagreein' disagreeing disagreement disagreements

Literary usage of Disagreeable

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1862)
"A disagreeable thing is distinguished from an impertinence, which it often ... It is of the essence of a disagreeable thing that it should be true — true in ..."

2. Elements of Criticism by Henry Home Kames (1833)
"The difference between agreeable and pleasant, and painful and disagreeable- Agreeable and disagreeable, qualities of the object—Pleasant and painful, ..."

3. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1886)
"The calcined magnesia prepared by them will be found to be perfectly deprived of carbonic acid, free from taste, smell or other disagreeable property, ..."

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