displeasant
English
Alternative forms
- displeasaunt (obsolete)
Etymology
From Old French desplaisant, present participle of desplaire (“to displease”).
Adjective
displeasant (comparative more displeasant, superlative most displeasant)
- (obsolete except as archaic) Unpleasant, disagreeable.
- 2009, Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall, Fourth Estate 2010, p. 383:
- ‘She suffers spasms, torsions and trances. It sounds most displeasant.’
- 2009, Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall, Fourth Estate 2010, p. 383: