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 →

2) An unpleasant person is unkind or rude. tree →

3) (euphemism) «Unpleasantness» can be a polite word for a fight, a quarrel or a war. tree →

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 →
• It was an unpleasant day: cold, wet and windy. tree →
• Don't be unpleasant to your brother. tree →
• Getting a needle at the doctor's is unpleasant, but it keeps you healthy. tree →
• I had an unpleasant surprise when I found a slug in my shoe. tree →
• After some unpleasantness at the meeting, everyone went home. tree →
• There another unpleasant surprise awaited him. tree →

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.
• "Bite the bullet" means face something unpleasant bravely; the story about soldiers biting bullets is often told but not proven.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «unpleasant» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.