Dictionary

unpleasurable en · ADJ

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English pleasure Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Italic *-ðlom Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English pleasurable English unpleasurable From un- + pleasurable.

Meanings

1. That gives displeasure.
   • Before the advent of resensation there exists neither the known nor the unknown, only pleasurable, comfortable, or unpleasurable sensations which come and go. With resensation there arises the division into the familiar and the new, the unknown. 1959, Ernest G. Schachtel, Metamorphosis: On the Conflict of Human Development and the Psychology of Creativity, page 151:

Forms

Deriveds

unpleasurableness · unpleasurably

Synonyms

displeasing (that gives displeasure) · unpleasant (that gives displeasure) · nasty (that gives displeasure)