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Disagreeable vs Sorrowful - What's the difference?

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Disagreeable is a related term of sorrowful.


As adjectives the difference between disagreeable and sorrowful

is that disagreeable is not agreeable, conformable, or congruous; contrary; unsuitable while sorrowful is of a person, full of sorrow; exhibiting sorrow; sad; dejected; distressed; distraught.

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.

    sorrowful

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of a person, full of sorrow; exhibiting sorrow; sad; dejected; distressed; distraught.
  • Producing sorrow; exciting grief; mournful; lamentable; grievous.
    • sorrowful accident
  • * 1900 , L. Frank Baum , The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Chapter 23
    • She threw her arms around the Lion's neck and kissed him, patting his big head tenderly. Then she kissed the Tin Woodman, who was weeping in a way most dangerous to his joints. But she hugged the soft, stuffed body of the Scarecrow in her arms instead of kissing his painted face, and found she was crying herself at this sorrowful parting from her loving comrades.

    Synonyms

    * See also * mournful, lamentable, grievous * See also

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