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disagreeable

di·sag·reeable

UK/dɪsəˈɡɹiː.əbəl/ US/dɪsəˈɡɹɪbəl/ uncommon archaic

adjective

1.

not to your liking

  • “a most disagreeable journey”
  • “a disagreeable old man”
  • “in a disagreeable mood”
2.

not agreeing with your tastes or expectations

  • “found the task disagreeable and decided to abandon it”
  • “a job temperamentally unsympathetic to him”

Origin

Inherited from Middle English disagreable, from Middle French desagreable, from Old French desagraable (compare French désagréable). By surface analysis, dis- + agreeable.

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