unpleasurable
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
That gives displeasure.
Example Sentences
- "Before the advent of resensation there exists neither the known nor the unknown, only pleasurable, comfortable, or unpleasurable sensations which come and go. With resensation there arises the division into the familiar and the new, the unknown."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English pleasure Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Italic *-ðlom Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English pleasurable English unpleasurable From un- + pleasurable.
Inflected Forms
more unpleasurable (comparative)
most unpleasurable (superlative)