UNPLEASING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unpleasing mean? 

• UNPLEASING (adjective)
  The adjective UNPLEASING has 1 sense:

1. unpleasant or disagreeable to the senses

  Familiarity information: UNPLEASING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNPLEASING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Unpleasant or disagreeable to the senses

Similar:

unpleasant (offensive or disagreeable; causing discomfort or unhappiness)

Derivation:

unpleasingness (the quality of being unpleasant to to the senses)

 Context examples 

If the situation is unpleasing, you compromise with your conscience when you make yourself a party to it.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Warmed by the sight of such a friend to her son, and regulated by the wish of appearing to advantage before him, she was overflowing with gratitude—artless, maternal gratitude—which could not be unpleasing.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

His appearance however was not unpleasing, in spite of his being in the opinion of Marianne and Margaret an absolute old bachelor, for he was on the wrong side of five and thirty; but though his face was not handsome, his countenance was sensible, and his address was particularly gentlemanlike.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Such a change in a man of so much pride exciting not only astonishment but gratitude—for to love, ardent love, it must be attributed; and as such its impression on her was of a sort to be encouraged, as by no means unpleasing, though it could not be exactly defined.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

No one could dispute her right to come; the house was her husband's from the moment of his father's decease; but the indelicacy of her conduct was so much the greater, and to a woman in Mrs. Dashwood's situation, with only common feelings, must have been highly unpleasing;—but in HER mind there was a sense of honor so keen, a generosity so romantic, that any offence of the kind, by whomsoever given or received, was to her a source of immovable disgust.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)