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Disagreeable vs Displeasant - What's the difference?

disagreeable | displeasant |

As adjectives the difference between disagreeable and displeasant

is that disagreeable is not agreeable, conformable, or congruous; contrary; unsuitable while displeasant is unpleasant, disagreeable.

As a noun disagreeable

is something displeasing; anything that is disagreeable.

disagreeable

English

(Webster 1913)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Not agreeable, conformable, or congruous; contrary; unsuitable.
    • (rfdate) Preach you truly the doctrine which you have received, and teach nothing that is disagreeable thereunto. --Udall.
  • Exciting repugnance; offensive to the feelings or senses; displeasing; unpleasant.
    • (rfdate) That which is disagreeable''' to one is many times agreeable to another, or '''disagreeable in a less degree. --Wollaston.

    Usage notes

    * Nouns to which "disagreeable" is often applied: odor, smell, taste, sensation, thing, person, man, woman, duty, work, feeling, manner, experience, effect, feature, business, surprise, job.

    Antonyms

    * agreeable

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something displeasing; anything that is disagreeable.
  • * 1855 , Blackwood's magazine (volume 77, page 331)
    • The disagreeables of travelling are necessary evils, to be encountered for the sake of the agreeables of resting and looking round you.

    displeasant

    English

    Alternative forms

    * displeasaunt (obsolete)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Unpleasant, disagreeable.
  • * 2009 , Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall , Fourth Estate 2010, p. 383:
  • *:‘She suffers spasms, torsions and trances. It sounds most displeasant .’