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# unpleasant

«unpleasant» in Mova's school dictionary: **not nice or not enjoyable: an unpleasant smell…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (unpleasant); adverb unpleasantly; noun unpleasantness

### meaning for a pupil

1) Unpleasant means not nice or not enjoyable: an unpleasant smell, unpleasant weather. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unpleasant/#m1)

2) An unpleasant person is unkind or rude. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unpleasant/#m2)

3) (euphemism) «Unpleasantness» can be a polite word for a fight, a quarrel or a war. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unpleasant/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life and stories it describes bad smells, tastes, feelings, weather and people. In science lessons, some chemicals have unpleasant smells (a safety sign). Phrases: an unpleasant surprise, unpleasant to touch, rather unpleasant.

### examples

- The rotten eggs had a very unpleasant smell. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unpleasant/#x1)
- It was an unpleasant day: cold, wet and windy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unpleasant/#x2)
- Don't be unpleasant to your brother. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unpleasant/#x3)
- Getting a needle at the doctor's is unpleasant, but it keeps you healthy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unpleasant/#x4)
- I had an unpleasant surprise when I found a slug in my shoe. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unpleasant/#x5)
- After some unpleasantness at the meeting, everyone went home. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unpleasant/#x6)
- There another unpleasant surprise awaited him. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unpleasant/#x7)

### note

«Un-» + «pleasant». Use «an» before it: «an unpleasant smell». Similar: nasty, horrible, disagreeable (formal). Opposite: pleasant.

### In the corpora

- [People use soft words for things about animals they find unpleasant: toilets, killing and giving pets away.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/18-pets-and-money/0/)
- ["Bite the bullet" means face something unpleasant bravely; the story about soldiers biting bullets is often told but not proven.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/25-idioms-taken-literally/9/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «unpleasant» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unpleasant/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.