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Unbearable vs Disagreeable - What's the difference?

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Unbearable is a related term of disagreeable.


As adjectives the difference between unbearable and disagreeable

is that unbearable is so unpleasant or painful as to be unendurable while disagreeable is not agreeable, conformable, or congruous; contrary; unsuitable.

As a noun disagreeable is

something displeasing; anything that is disagreeable.

unbearable

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • so unpleasant or painful as to be unendurable

    • Synonyms

    * insufferable * unsupportable

    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.