unpleasantness

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The property of being unpleasant or disagreeable. uncountable,usually
    — Given the behaviour of the members, who do normally come to Lord’s, this seemed a bizarre attempt to offload the unpleasantness on hoi polloi taking advantage of some rare £25 tickets.
  2. An unpleasant behaviour, occurrence, etc. countable,usually
    — Perhaps you are not so much aware as I am, of the mischief that may, of the unpleasantnesses that must, arise from a young man’s being received in this manner—domesticated among us—authorized to come at all hours—and placed suddenly on a footing which must do away all restraints.

词形变化

unpleasantnesses plural

词汇关系

反义词
pleasantness
衍生词
late unpleasantness

词源

Etymology tree
English unpleasant
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English unpleasantness
From unpleasant + -ness.
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