Displease synonyms and antonyms

dĭs-plēz'

Category:

annoy
To disturb or irritate, especially by continued or repeated acts; to bother with unpleasant deeds.
2
0
anger (related)
To cause such a feeling of antagonism.
2
0
offend
To hurt the feelings of; cause to feel resentful, angry, or displeased; insult
2
1
bother (related)
(Intransitive) To feel care or anxiety; to make or take trouble; to be troublesome.
1
0
disturb
To trouble emotionally or mentally; upset:
1
0
turn off
(Intransitive) To leave a road; to exit.
1
0
vex
To keep bringing up, going over, or returning to (a matter difficult to solve)
1
1
Advertisement
exasperate
(Archaic) To intensify (a feeling, disease, etc.); aggravate
0
0
irritate
To cause (someone) to feel impatient or angry; annoy:
0
0
miff
To cause to become offended or annoyed.
0
0
pall
(Intransitive) To become vapid, tasteless, dull, or insipid; to lose strength, life, spirit, or taste.
0
0
pique
To excite (someone) to action by causing resentment or jealousy; to stimulate (a feeling, emotion); to offend by slighting.
0
0
provoke
The definition of provoke is to push something to happen, or to annoy.
0
0
please (antonym)
To be agreeable; give pleasure; satisfy
0
0
Advertisement
make happy (antonym)
make unhappy
0
0
satisfy (antonym)
To answer or discharge (a claim, debt, legal demand, etc.); to give compensation for.
0
0
appease (antonym)
To placate or attempt to placate (a threatening nation, for example) by granting concessions, often at the expense of principle.
0
0
compose (antonym)
(Printing, dated) To arrange (types) in a composing stick for printing; to typeset.
0
0
delight (antonym)
To give great pleasure or joy:
0
0
humor (antonym)
Humor means to agree with the wishes or ideas of someone else just to make them feel better.
0
0
calm (antonym)
(Intransitive) To become calm.
0
0
Advertisement
give offense to
0
0
not set right (or well) with
0
0
like (related)
(Scots) To be pleased.
0
0
pain (related)
Pain is defined as to hurt or cause suffering.
0
0
upbraid (related)
0
0
mortify (related)
0
0
condescend (related)
0
0
Advertisement
discomfit (related)
0
0
scandalize (related)
0
0
reprove (related)
0
0
aggravate
The definition of aggravate means to make worse or to annoy.
0
1
dissatisfy
To fail to satisfy; make discontented; displease
0
1
Find another word for displease. In this page you can discover 33 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for displease, like: annoy, anger, offend, bother, disturb, turn off, vex, exasperate, irritate, miff and pall.
Trending topics
More Articles

Displease Sentence Examples

  • For the moment Germany was to hold aloof lest any active initiative on her part should displease the Vatican, of whose help Bismarck stood in need.

  • The French government - fearing to displease the other powers by following up its conquest, and hampered in particular by its engagements towards England, yet conscious that the only means of putting an end to the piracy was to remain - decided provisionally in favour of that intermediate system, called restricted occupation, which consisted in occupying merely the principal seaports and awaiting events.

  • Robert Smith (Harmonics, 2nd ed., 1 759, p. 95) states that Sauveur " inferred that octaves and other simple concords, whose vibrations coincide very often, are agreeable and pleasant because their beats are too quick to be distinguished, be the pitch of the sounds ever so low; and on the contrary, that the more complex consonances whose vibrations coincide seldom are disagreeable because we can distinguish their slow beats; which displease the ear, says he, by reason of the inequality of the sound.

  • Garrick now brought Irene out, with alterations sufficient to displease the author, yet not sufficient to make the piece pleasing to the audience.

  • The Liberals had to act cautiously and slowly, because they perceived that any premature move towards reform or democratic legislation wculd not be welcome at court, and might displease the generals.

More sentences

Words that mention displease in the Dictionary

Words near displease in the Thesaurus