Disagreeable vs Sinister - What's the difference?
disagreeable | sinister | 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)
Inauspicious]], ominous, unlucky, illegitimate (as in [[w:bar sinister, bar sinister ).
* Ben Jonson
*'>citation
Evil or seemingly evil; indicating lurking danger or harm.
Of the left side.
* Shakespeare
* Shakespeare
* 1911 , (Saki), ‘The Unrest-Cure’, The Chronicles of Clovis :
(heraldry) On the left side of a shield from the wearer's standpoint, and the right side to the viewer.
(obsolete) Wrong, as springing from indirection or obliquity; perverse; dishonest.
* Francis Bacon
* South
* Sir Walter Scott
Disagreeable is a related term of sinister.
As adjectives the difference between disagreeable and sinister
is that disagreeable is not agreeable, conformable, or congruous; contrary; unsuitable while sinister is inauspicious]], ominous, unlucky, illegitimate (as in [[w:bar sinister|bar sinister ).As a noun disagreeable
is something displeasing; anything that is disagreeable.disagreeable
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(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.
sinister
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Alternative forms
* sinistre (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- All the several ills that visit earth, / Brought forth by night, with a sinister birth.
- sinister influences
- the sinister atmosphere of the crypt
- Here on his sinister cheek.
- My mother's blood / Runs on the dexter cheek, and this sinister / Bounds in my father's.
- Before the train had stopped he had decorated his sinister shirt-cuff with the inscription, ‘J. P. Huddle, The Warren, Tilfield, near Slowborough.’
- Nimble and sinister tricks and shifts.
- He scorns to undermine another's interest by any sinister or inferior arts.
- He read in their looks sinister intentions directed particularly toward himself.