Synonyms for displease
Most common
anger disgust offend irritate miff dissatisfy discompose misplease
Definitions
- v. 1
To make not pleased; to cause a feeling of disapprobation or dislike in; to be disagreeable to; to vex slightly.
I felt displeased with the boy.
Related words
- Word family
- displeasure disgust dissatisfy
Forms
- Past participle
- displeased
e.g. displeased → vexed, offended, angered, annoyed…
Example sentences
- anger Susan broke the dish on purpose to show her anger.
- disgust I don't hate you anymore. Now you just disgust me.
- offend I can never allow you to offend my wife like this.
- irritate What kind of things does Tom do that irritate you?
By length
- 3 letters
- vex1, irk1
- 4 letters
- fret1, rile1, miff
- 5 letters
- anger2, annoy2, pique1, peeve1, chafe1
- 6 letters
- offend2, ruffle2, nettle2
- 7 letters
- disgust2, provoke2
- 8 letters
- irritate3
- 9 letters
- misplease
- 10 letters
- exasperate4, dissatisfy4, discompose
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (anger2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- déplaire
- Español
- desagradar