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Definition of Disagreeable
Disagreeable

Not agreeable, conformable, or congruous; contrary; unsuitable.

Exciting repugnance; offensive to the feelings or senses; displeasing; unpleasant.

Related Definitions:
Agreeable, Conformable, Congruous, Contrary, Displeasing, Exciting, Not, Offensive, Or, Repugnance, The, To, Unpleasant


Disagreeable Quotations

My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.
Winston Churchill

The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.
John Keats

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

There are very few men of genius in advertising agencies. But we need all we can find. Almost without exception they are disagreeable. Don't destroy them. They lay golden eggs.
David Ogilvy

Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.
Ambrose Bierce

It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.
Victor Hugo

Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity.
Leonard Cohen

To disagree, one doesn't have to be disagreeable.
Barry Goldwater

Few can believe that suffering, especially by others, is in vain. Anything that is disagreeable must surely have beneficial economic effects.
John Kenneth Galbraith

When you run into someone who is disagreeable to others, you may be sure he is uncomfortable with himself; the amount of pain we inflict upon others is directly proportional to the amount we feel within us.
Sydney J. Harris

Disagreeable Translations

disagreeable in Hungarian is ellenszenves
disagreeable in Latin is molestus, ingratus, incommodus
disagreeable in Norwegian is ubehagelig
disagreeable in Spanish is desagradable


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