Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

unpleasable

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: un-pleasable
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

That cannot be pleased; implacable.

Example Sentences

"A perusal of “Little Girl Lost” reveals John Drew Barrymore (who died in 2004) as one of those looming, unpleasable fathers, subject to disappearing acts, alcoholic binges, irrational rages."

Etymology

From un- + pleasable.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: un

Inflected Forms

more unpleasable (comparative) most unpleasable (superlative)

Questions

What does unpleasable mean?: That cannot be pleased; implacable.
Where does unpleasable come from?: From un- + pleasable.

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