Unpleasantness

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Unpleasant \Un*pleas"ant\, a.
     Not pleasant; not amiable or agreeable; displeasing;
     offensive. -- {Un*pleas"ant*ly}, adv. -- {Un*pleas"ant*ness},
     n.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  unpleasantness
       n 1: the feeling caused by disagreeable stimuli; one pole of a
            continuum of states of feeling [ant: {pleasantness}]
       2: the quality of giving displeasure; "the recent
          unpleasantness of the weather" [ant: {pleasantness}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  46 Moby Thesaurus words for "unpleasantness":
     Discordia, Eris, badness, clash, clashing, conflict, contention,
     damnability, disaccord, disaffinity, discord, discordance,
     discordancy, disharmony, enmity, evilness, friction, improperness,
     inaccuracy, inauspiciousness, incompatibility, incompatibleness,
     inexpedience, inferiority, inharmoniousness, inharmony, invalidity,
     jangle, jar, malevolence, mischief, moral badness, noncooperation,
     open conflict, peccancy, reprehensibility, rub, strained relations,
     tension, unfavorableness, unharmoniousness, unhealthiness,
     unkindness, unskillfulness, viciousness, wickedness