Need another word that means the same as “unpleasant”? Find 47 synonyms and 30 related words for “unpleasant” in this overview.
The synonyms of “Unpleasant” are: disagreeable, irksome, troublesome, annoying, irritating, vexatious, displeasing, uncomfortable, distressing, nasty, horrible, appalling, terrible, awful, dreadful, hateful, detestable, miserable, abominable, execrable, odious, invidious, objectionable, offensive, obnoxious, repugnant, repulsive, repellent, revolting, disgusting, distasteful, nauseating, unsavoury, unpalatable, ugly, unappetizing, uninviting, unappealing, off-putting, inedible, uneatable, bitter, sour, rancid, unlikable, unlovable, unattractive
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “unpleasant” as an adjective can have the following definitions:
| abominable | Causing moral revulsion. What an abominable mess. |
| annoying | Causing irritation or annoyance. Annoying habits. |
| appalling | Very bad; awful. His conduct was appalling. |
| awful | Offensive or even (of persons) malicious- Ezra Pound. An awful speech. |
| bitter | Harsh or corrosive in tone. She knew from bitter experience how treacherous such feelings could be. |
| detestable | Unequivocally detestable. I found the film s violence detestable. |
| disagreeable | Not to your liking. Aspects of his work are disagreeable to him. |
| disgusting | Arousing revulsion or strong indignation. A disgusting smell. |
| displeasing | Causing annoyance or dissatisfaction; disagreeable. Displeasing news. |
| distasteful | Causing dislike or aversion; disagreeable or unpleasant. Distasteful language. |
| distressing | Bad; unfortunate. Some very distressing news. |
| dreadful | Extremely disagreeable. She looked quite dreadful and she was struggling for breath. |
| execrable | Unequivocally detestable. Execrable cheap wine. |
| hateful | Characterized by malice. That hateful arrogant woman. |
| horrible | Very unpleasant. War is beyond all words horrible. |
| inedible | Not fit or suitable for eating. An inedible variety of mushroom. |
| invidious | (of a comparison or distinction) unfairly discriminating; unjust. She d put herself in an invidious position. |
| irksome | Irritating; annoying. Petty regulations were becoming very irksome. |
| irritating | Causing physical discomfort. The substance may be irritating to eyes and skin. |
| miserable | (of a person) wretchedly unhappy or uncomfortable. Almost depleted his miserable store of dried beans. |
| nasty | Damaging or harmful. Harry was a nasty foul mouthed old devil. |
| nauseating | Causing or able to cause nausea. Some nauseating sentimental ditty. |
| objectionable | Liable to objection or debate; used of something one might take exception to. Found the politician s views objectionable. |
| obnoxious | Extremely unpleasant. He found her son somewhat obnoxious. |
| odious | Extremely unpleasant; repulsive. Consequences odious to those you govern. |
| off-putting | Tending to repel- Elizabeth Hess. |
| offensive | Morally offensive. Offensive remarks. |
| rancid | (used of decomposing oils or fats) having a rank smell or taste usually due to a chemical change or decomposition. Rancid butter. |
| repellent | Highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust. The idea of eating meat is repellent to me. |
| repugnant | In conflict or incompatible with. Morally repugnant customs. |
| repulsive | Possessing the ability to repel. The most repulsive character in recent novels. |
| revolting | Highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust. Revolting food. |
| sour | (of soil) deficient in lime and usually dank. A sour temper. |
| terrible | Extremely bad or serious. The weather was terrible. |
| troublesome | Difficult to deal with. A troublesome infection. |
| unappealing | (of characters in literature or drama) tending to evoke antipathetic feelings. Was forced to talk to his singularly unappealing hostess. |
| unappetizing | Not inviting or attractive; unwholesome. An unappetizing leg of chicken. |
| unattractive | Lacking power to arouse interest. As unattractive as most mining regions. |
| uncomfortable | Providing or experiencing physical discomfort. An uncomfortable way of surprising me just when I felt surest. |
| uneatable | Not fit to be eaten. We all complained about the uneatable breakfast. |
| uninviting | Neither attractive nor tempting. The house was dark and uninviting. |
| unlikable | (of characters in literature or drama) tending to evoke antipathetic feelings. A disagreeable and unlikable old woman. |
| unlovable | Incapable of inspiring love or affection. She was in some mysterious way unlovable. |
| unpalatable | Not pleasant or acceptable to the taste or mind. Scraps of unpalatable food. |
| unsavoury | Not pleasing in odor or taste. They looked at the scanty unsavoury portions of food doled out to them. |
| vexatious | Denoting an action or the bringer of an action that is brought without sufficient grounds for winning, purely to cause annoyance to the defendant. A vexatious child. |
| alarming | Worrying or disturbing. Our countryside is disappearing at an alarming rate. |
| atrocious | Exceptionally bad or displeasing. Atrocious cruelties. |
| awkward | Causing inconvenience. His clumsy fingers produced an awkward knot. |
| baleful | Deadly or sinister. Bill shot a baleful glance in her direction. |
| beastly | In a beastly manner. Beastly immorality. |
| detestable | Unequivocally detestable Edmund Burke. Detestable vices. |
| disagreeable | Unfriendly and bad-tempered. A disagreeable situation. |
| disgusting | Highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust. A disgusting smell. |
| displeasing | Causing annoyance or dissatisfaction; disagreeable. Displeasing news. |
| dreadful | Extremely disagreeable. She looked quite dreadful and she was struggling for breath. |
| embarrassing | Causing embarrassment. An embarrassing muddle. |
| eyesore | A thing that is very ugly, especially a building. The office crumbled into an eyesore. |
| forbidding | Harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance- J.M.Barrie. A grim and forbidding building. |
| formidable | Inspiring fear. The formidable prospect of major surgery. |
| frightful | Extremely distressing. A frightful mistake. |
| hellish | (informal) very unpleasant. Hellish weather. |
| horrifying | Provoking horror. A horrifying incident. |
| menacing | Suggesting the presence of danger; threatening. Our officers encountered menacing looks from teenagers. |
| minatory | Expressing or conveying a threat. He is unlikely to be deterred by minatory finger wagging. |
| odious | Extremely unpleasant; repulsive. Consequences odious to those you govern. |
| offensive | Morally offensive. Offensive language. |
| repellent | Causing disgust or distaste. A flea repellent. |
| repulsive | Arousing intense distaste or disgust. A repulsive mask. |
| sinister | Giving the impression that something harmful or evil is happening or will happen. The scheme of some sinister intelligence bent on punishing him. |
| terrible | Extremely unpleasant or disagreeable. Despite passing my driving test first time I m a terrible driver. |
| threatening | Threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments. Taylor was in custody on a charge of threatening behaviour. |
| unsavory | Morally offensive. An unsavory reputation. |
| upsetting | Causing unhappiness, disappointment, or worry. Destruction was done by the breaking of pictures upsetting of furniture and chopping down of interior doors. |
| worst | Of the poorest quality or the lowest standard; least good or desirable. At least 32 people died in Australia s worst bus accident. |
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