displeasing
/dɪsˈpliːzɪŋ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.12 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Example Sentences
- "After the hurricane, the building was structurally sound but aesthetically displeasing."
- "Mr. Hyde was pale and dwarfish, he gave an impression of deformity without any nameable malformation, he had a displeasing smile, he had borne himself to the lawyer with a sort of murderous mixture of timidity and boldness, and he spoke with a husky, whispering and somewhat broken voice; […]"
- "[…]but after all there's nothing less displeasing to me than a beefsteak smothered in mushrooms on a balcony in sound of the Broadway streetcars, with a hand-organ playing down below, and the boys hollering extras about the latest suicide."
- "The taking of life being displeasing to Buddha, outside many of the temples old women and children earn a livelihood by selling sparrows, small eels, carp, and tortoises, which the worshipper sets free in honour of the deity, within whose territory cocks and hens and doves, tame and unharmed, perch on every jutty, frieze, buttress, and coigne of vantage."
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: Old French
Word Breakdown
- Root: desplaisant
Inflected Forms
more displeasing (comparative)
most displeasing (superlative)