DISAGREEABLY

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does disagreeably mean? 

• DISAGREEABLY (adverb)
  The adverb DISAGREEABLY has 1 sense:

1. in a disagreeable manner

  Familiarity information: DISAGREEABLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISAGREEABLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a disagreeable manner

Context example:

'I took no harm from the journey, thank you,' she said disagreeably

Antonym:

agreeably (in an enjoyable manner)

Pertainym:

disagreeable (not to your liking)

 Context examples 

Mr. Collins was gratified, and with a more smiling solemnity replied: It gives me great pleasure to hear that you have passed your time not disagreeably.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

After a little rambling talk, the lawyer led up to the subject which so disagreeably preoccupied his mind.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Martin did the honors and congratulated both of them in language so easy and graceful as to affect disagreeably the peasant-mind of his sister's lover.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

You appear, however, to have been disagreeably impressed by it.

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

These particulars struck me, I confess, disagreeably; and as I followed him into the bright light of the consulting room, I kept my hand ready on my weapon.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

She scarcely noted the rhythm otherwise, except when it became too pompous, at which moments she was disagreeably impressed with its amateurishness.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Arthur and Norman, he found, believed in evolution and had read Spencer, though it did not seem to have made any vital impression upon them, while the young fellow with the glasses and the mop of hair, Will Olney, sneered disagreeably at Spencer and repeated the epigram, There is no god but the Unknowable, and Herbert Spencer is his prophet.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)