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Displeasant vs Unpleasant - What's the difference?

displeasant | unpleasant |

As adjectives the difference between displeasant and unpleasant

is that displeasant is unpleasant, disagreeable while unpleasant is not pleasant.

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 .’

    • unpleasant

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Not pleasant.

    • Derived terms

    * unpleasantness * late unpleasantness