Displeasing Synonyms and Antonyms

Not pleasant or agreeable
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. bad
  2. disagreeable
  3. offensive
  4. uncongenial
  5. unpleasant
  6. unsympathetic
  7. icky
  8. yucky
Give displeasure to
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. offending
  2. bothering
  3. annoying
  4. provoking
  5. piquing
  6. miffing
  7. irritating
  8. exasperating
  9. disturbing
  10. angering
  11. dissatisfying
  12. vexing
  13. aggravating
Antonyms:
  1. calming
  2. humoring
  3. delighting
  4. composing
  5. pleasing
  6. appeasing
  7. satisfying
Causing displeasure or lacking pleasing qualities
(Adjective)
Antonyms:
  1. pleasing

Words Related to Displeasing

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Displeasing Sentence Examples

  • The book, received with great favour by the people, was displeasing to the authorities.

  • The religion consists of fear of the spirits of the wood, the sea, disease and ancestors, and of avoidance of acts traditionally displeasing to them.

  • The view of the cathedral has been much improved by a clearance of the old houses on the Domhof, including the archiepiscopal palace, but the new Hof, though flanked by many fine buildings, is displeasing owing to the intrusion of numerous modern palatial hotels and shops.

  • She never accommodated herself to the part she was called on to play during the Empire, and, though endowed with immense wealth and distinguished by the title of Madame Mere, lived mainly in retirement, and in the exercise of a strict domestic economy which her early privations had made a second nature to her, but which rendered her very unpopular in France and was displeasing to Napoleon.

  • This, however, latterly became displeasing to the French, now in Cochin China, and Siam was ultimately obliged to recognize the protectorate forced on Cambodia by that power.

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