DISPLEASURE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does displeasure mean? 

• DISPLEASURE (noun)
  The noun DISPLEASURE has 1 sense:

1. the feeling of being displeased or annoyed or dissatisfied with someone or something

  Familiarity information: DISPLEASURE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISPLEASURE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The feeling of being displeased or annoyed or dissatisfied with someone or something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Hypernyms ("displeasure" is a kind of...):

annoyance; chafe; vexation (anger produced by some annoying irritation)

dissatisfaction (the feeling of being displeased and discontent)

Derivation:

displease (give displeasure to)

 Context examples 

Her tranquillity was not improved by the general's impatience for the appearance of his eldest son, nor by the displeasure he expressed at his laziness when Captain Tilney at last came down.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

For a minute the room was very still, then John said slowly—but she could feel it cost him an effort to express no displeasure—. . .

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Her uncle's displeasure was terrible to her; but what could her justification or her gratitude and attachment do for him?

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

When she snarled her displeasure, the old leader would whirl on the three-year-old.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Arouse all together, mes enfants, under pain of my displeasure.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The young lady resumed her seat with an air of displeasure.

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

Look at me, marked until I die with his high displeasure; and moan and groan for what you made him!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

“I wonder he did not remember the book”—was all Harriet's answer, and spoken with a degree of grave displeasure which Emma thought might be safely left to itself.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

It is a relation which you tell me is to give you great surprise; I hope at least it will not afford you any displeasure.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

He had merely intimated his displeasure, in his pride believing that to intimate was to command.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)