DISAGREEABLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does disagreeable mean? 

• DISAGREEABLE (adjective)
  The adjective DISAGREEABLE has 3 senses:

1. not to your liking

2. unpleasant to interact with

3. not agreeing with your tastes or expectations

  Familiarity information: DISAGREEABLE used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISAGREEABLE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not to your liking

Context example:

a disagreeable situation

Similar:

annoying; bothersome; galling; irritating; nettlesome; pesky; pestering; pestiferous; plaguey; plaguy; teasing; vexatious; vexing (causing irritation or annoyance)

dreadful (extremely disagreeable and unpleasant)

abrasive; harsh (sharply disagreeable; rigorous)

nerve-racking; nerve-wracking; stressful; trying (extremely irritating to the nerves)

unsweet (distasteful)

Antonym:

agreeable (conforming to your own liking or feelings or nature)

Derivation:

disagreeableness (the quality of being disagreeable and unpleasant)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Unpleasant to interact with

Context example:

a disagreeable old man

Similar:

ill-natured (having an irritable and unpleasant disposition)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Not agreeing with your tastes or expectations

Synonyms:

disagreeable; unsympathetic

Context example:

a job temperamentally unsympathetic to him

Similar:

incompatible; uncongenial (not suitable to your tastes or needs)

Derivation:

disagreeableness (the quality of being disagreeable and unpleasant)

 Context examples 

"It must be very disagreeable to sleep in a tent, and eat all sorts of bad-tasting things, and drink out of a tin mug," sighed Amy.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I'll tell you how to manage so as to avoid the embarrassment of making a formal entrance, which is the most disagreeable part of the business.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

“Oh, it'll soon leave off,” said Peggotty—I again mean our Peggotty—“and besides, you know, it's not more disagreeable to you than to us.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The master's lips tightened as he faced the disagreeable task.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

If there is anything disagreeable going on men are always sure to get out of it, and Charles is as bad as any of them.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

After being used to such a home as the abbey, an ordinary parsonage-house must be very disagreeable.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

There was nothing disagreeable in Mr. Rushworth's appearance, and Sir Thomas was liking him already.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

The flavour is not disagreeable, but it is perceptible.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

‘I have had some very disagreeable associations in my life,’ said she, ‘I wish to forget all about them.’

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And brought Miss Hunter down from London in order to get rid of the disagreeable persistence of Mr. Fowler.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)