unpleasantness

3 definitions found

unpleasantness - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Unpleasant \Un*pleas"ant\, a.
     Not pleasant; not amiable or agreeable; displeasing;
     offensive. -- Un*pleas"ant*ly, adv. -- Un*pleas"ant*ness,
     n.
     [1913 Webster]

unpleasantness - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  unpleasantness
      n 1: the feeling caused by disagreeable stimuli; one pole of a
           continuum of states of feeling [ant: pleasantness]
      2: the quality of giving displeasure; "the recent unpleasantness
         of the weather" [ant: pleasantness, sweetness]

unpleasantness - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  46 Moby Thesaurus words for "unpleasantness":
     Discordia, Eris, badness, clash, clashing, conflict, contention,
     damnability, disaccord, disaffinity, discord, discordance,
     discordancy, disharmony, enmity, evilness, friction, improperness,
     inaccuracy, inauspiciousness, incompatibility, incompatibleness,
     inexpedience, inferiority, inharmoniousness, inharmony, invalidity,
     jangle, jar, malevolence, mischief, moral badness, noncooperation,
     open conflict, peccancy, reprehensibility, rub, strained relations,
     tension, unfavorableness, unharmoniousness, unhealthiness,
     unkindness, unskillfulness, viciousness, wickedness