Synonyms for unpleasant
- adjective
All synonyms
Adjective
painful, distasteful, harsh, disagreeable, nasty, repulsive, unpleasing, unwelcome, bad, unsavory US, unsavoury UK, unpalatable, horrid, ugly, bitter, obnoxious, unhappy, revolting, displeasing, depressing, offensive, repugnant, abhorrent, forbidding, yucky informal, hellish, unacceptable, grim, nauseous, thankless, rough, hard, mean, uncongenial, unpleasurable, yechy informal, loathsome, vile, odious, sickening, abominable, lousy informal, obscene, wicked, repellent
Definitions
- adj. 1
Not pleasant.
Example sentences
- painful She is still in the painful process of growing up.
- nasty The child had a nasty cough because he had a cold.
- distasteful I hope that distasteful joke wasn't directed at me.
- disagreeable Tom is one of the most disagreeable people I know.
- repulsive I find crumpets totally repulsive and disgusting.
- unwelcome Grr! Avoid not, unwelcome evil and cowardly beast!
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| unpleasant | rising | |
| painful | rising | |
| nasty | rising | |
| distasteful | steady | |
| disagreeable | steady | |
| repulsive | steady |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 3 letters
- bad1
- 4 letters
- hard1, mean1, ugly2, grim1, vile1
- 5 letters
- rough1, nasty2, harsh1, lousy2, yucky2, yechy
- 6 letters
- bitter2, wicked2, horrid2, odious3
- 7 letters
- painful2, unhappy3, obscene2, hellish2
- 8 letters
- nauseous2, unsavory4
- 9 letters
- offensive3, obnoxious3, sickening3, repulsive3, unwelcome3, revolting3, abhorrent3, repugnant3, repellent3, loathsome2, thankless2, unsavoury
- 10 letters
- depressing3, forbidding3, abominable5, unpleasing
- 11 letters
- distasteful3, unpalatable5, displeasing, uncongenial
- 12 letters
- unacceptable5, disagreeable5
- 13 letters
- unpleasurable
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (ugly2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- déplaisant
- Italiano
- spiacevole
- Deutsch
- unangenehm