Disagreeable vs Frightful - What's the difference?
disagreeable | frightful | Related terms |
Not agreeable, conformable, or congruous; contrary; unsuitable.
Exciting repugnance; offensive to the feelings or senses; displeasing; unpleasant.
Something displeasing; anything that is disagreeable.
* 1855 , Blackwood's magazine (volume 77, page 331)
(obsolete): Full of fright; affrighted; frightened.
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Full of that which causes fright; exciting alarm; impressing terror; shocking; as, a frightful chasm, or tempest; a frightful appearance.
(Used as an intensifier)
As adjectives the difference between disagreeable and frightful
is that disagreeable is not agreeable, conformable, or congruous; contrary; unsuitable while frightful is : Full of fright; affrighted; frightened.As a noun disagreeable
is something displeasing; anything that is disagreeable.disagreeable
English
(Webster 1913)Adjective
(en adjective)- (rfdate) Preach you truly the doctrine which you have received, and teach nothing that is disagreeable thereunto. --Udall.
- (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
* agreeableNoun
(en noun)- The disagreeables of travelling are necessary evils, to be encountered for the sake of the agreeables of resting and looking round you.
frightful
English
(Webster 1913)Alternative forms
* frightfull (archaic)Adjective
(en adjective)- We wasted a frightful amount of money on renovations.