What does unpleasant mean?
Word: Unpleasant
Part of Speech: Adjective
Meaning: Unpleasant means not enjoyable or comfortable; also used for a person who is unfriendly or rude.
Synonyms: nasty, horrid, unkind
Antonyms: agreeable, delightful, nice
How do you spell unpleasant?
Syllables: un - pleas - ant
Tricky part: The ea of please stays, even though it sounds like a short e: students write unplesant.
Watch out for: unplesant, unplezant
Memory tip: Keep the ea of please: something unpleasant does not please you.
Unpleasant in a sentence
Example 1: By afternoon, the fish market has an unpleasant smell in the summer heat.
Example 2: Waiting two hours at the bus stop in the rain was unpleasant.
Example 3: Jonah was unpleasant to the waiter, and his mother made him apologise.
Fun Fact
Cooking gas has no smell of its own. An unpleasant-smelling chemical is added on purpose so that a leak is noticed quickly.
Practise the CREST Way
Word Makeup
Choose the prefix that completes the word:
____pleasant
a) dis
b) in
c) im
d) un
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d) un. Un turns pleasant into its opposite, as it turns kind into unkind.
Spell-o-Spell
Choose the incorrectly spelt word:
a) unpleasant
b) miserible
c) uncomfortable
d) neighbour
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b) miserible. Miserable ends in able, like comfortable.
Word Connection
Choose the synonym of the word:
unpleasant
a) peaceful
b) charming
c) harmless
d) disagreeable
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d) disagreeable. A disagreeable smell or task is one you do not enjoy, just like an unpleasant one.
Mingle-Mangle
Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:
asnlpnatue
a) unpleasant
b) unplanned
c) pleasantry
d) peasant
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a) unpleasant. Every one of the ten letters is used once in unpleasant; pleasantry has an r and a y that are missing, unplanned a d, and peasant uses only seven.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Of these, the most unpleasant would be ____.
a) a surprise birthday gift
b) a good night's sleep
c) a flat tyre on a holiday
d) a cool breeze in May
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c) a flat tyre on a holiday
2. A remark that people call unpleasant is one that is ____.
a) very hard to hear
b) funny and clever
c) hurtful and upsetting
d) too long and slow
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c) hurtful and upsetting
