unpleasurable

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ pleasurable.

Adjective

unpleasurable (comparative more unpleasurable, superlative most unpleasurable)

1. That gives displeasure.
   • 1959, Ernest G. Schachtel, Metamorphosis: On the Conflict of Human Development and the Psychology of Creativity, page 151:

     Before the advent of resensation there exists neither the known nor the unknown, only pleasurable, comfortable, or unpleasurable sensations which come and go. With resensation there arises the division into the familiar and the new, the unknown.

Synonyms

• (that gives displeasure): displeasing, nasty, unpleasant

Derived terms

• unpleasurably