Synonyms for disagreeableness


Grammar : Noun
Spell : dis-uh-gree-uh-buhl
Phonetic Transcription : ˌdɪs əˈgri ə bəl

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Définition 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
Example sentences :
  • 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

Antonyms for disagreeableness

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