Antonyms for disagreeableness
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : dis-uh-gree-uh-buhl |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˌdɪs əˈgri ə bəl |
Definition of disagreeableness
Origin :- c.1400, "not in agreement," from Old French desagreable (13c.), from des- (see dis-) + agreable (see agreeable). Meaning "not in accord with one's taste" is from 1690s. Related: Disagreeably; disagreeableness. Slightly earlier in same sense was unagreeable (late 14c.).
- As in asperity : noun harshness; bad temper
- As in contentiousness : noun aggressiveness
- It occasionally reached us in great waves of disagreeableness.
- Extract from : « Backlog Studies » by Charles Dudley Warner
- To prevent the Disagreeableness of this, it was regulated by a sort of Music.
- Extract from : « Lectures on Poetry » by Joseph Trapp
- Then in another phase he talked of belief—and the disagreeableness of dissenters.
- Extract from : « The Passionate Friends » by Herbert George Wells
- Imagine lying down, after a sordid day of dust and disagreeableness.
- Extract from : « Caught by the Turks » by Francis Yeats-Brown
- The Agreeableness or Disagreeableness of the Employments themselves.
- Extract from : « Political economy » by W. Stanley Jevons
- Disagreeableness is more easily tolerated than insignificance.
- Extract from : « Maxims and Reflections » by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- I had really underrated the disagreeableness of the English climate.
- Extract from : « Phantom Fortune, A Novel » by M. E. Braddon
- Jane hurried to say, so as to get away from the subject of disagreeableness.
- Extract from : « Five Children and It » by E. Nesbit
- The process of segregation is deprived to a large extent of the disagreeableness consequent upon a rigid table of precedence.
- Extract from : « The Land of Contrasts » by James Fullarton Muirhead
- I understand all the disagreeableness of being shut up within four walls.
- Extract from : « The Crime of the Boulevard » by Jules Claretie
Synonyms for disagreeableness
- acerbity
- acrimony
- aggression
- argumentativeness
- bellicoseness
- bellicosity
- belligerence
- belligerency
- bitterness
- churlishness
- combativeness
- crabbiness
- crossness
- difficulty
- disagreeableness
- fight
- hostility
- irascibility
- irritability
- meanness
- moroseness
- peevishness
- pugnaciousness
- pugnacity
- quarrelsomeness
- roughness
- sharpness
- sourness
- sullenness
- tartness
- truculence
- truculency
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