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DISAGREEABLE PERSON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does disagreeable person mean? 

DISAGREEABLE PERSON (noun)
  The noun DISAGREEABLE PERSON has 1 sense:

1. a person who is not pleasant or agreeableplay

  Familiarity information: DISAGREEABLE PERSON used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


DISAGREEABLE PERSON (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who is not pleasant or agreeable

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

disagreeable person; unpleasant person

Hypernyms ("disagreeable person" is a kind of...):

persona non grata; unwelcome person (a person who for some reason is not wanted or welcome)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "disagreeable person"):

scorner; sneerer (a person who expresses contempt by remarks or facial expression)

pharisee (a self-righteous or sanctimonious person)

pill (a unpleasant or tiresome person)

prima donna (a vain and temperamental person)

prude; puritan (a person excessively concerned about propriety and decorum)

bum; crumb; dirty dog; git; lowlife; puke; rat; rotter; scum bag; skunk; so-and-so; stinker; stinkpot (a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible)

flouter; jeerer; mocker; scoffer (someone who jeers or mocks or treats something with contempt or calls out in derision)

common scold; nag; nagger; scold; scolder (someone (especially a woman) who annoys people by constantly finding fault)

selfish person (a person who is unusually selfish)

sneak (a person who is regarded as underhanded and furtive and contemptible)

barbarian; boor; churl; Goth; peasant; tike; tyke (a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement)

prig; snob; snoot; snot (a person regarded as arrogant and annoying)

snorter (someone who expresses contempt or indignation by uttering a snorting sound)

disagreeable woman; unpleasant woman (a woman who is an unpleasant person)

arriviste; nouveau-riche; parvenu; upstart (a person who has suddenly risen to a higher economic status but has not gained social acceptance of others in that class)

upstart (an arrogant or presumptuous person)

vulgarian (a vulgar person (especially someone who makes a vulgar display of wealth))

bellyacher; complainer; crybaby; grumbler; moaner; sniveller; squawker; whiner (a person given to excessive complaints and crying and whining)

dirt ball; insect; louse; worm (a person who has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect)

egoist; egotist; swellhead (a conceited and self-centered person)

alienator (an unpleasant person who causes friendly people to become indifferent or unfriendly or hostile)

anathema; bete noire (a detested person)

asshole; bastard; cocksucker; dickhead; mother fucker; motherfucker; prick; shit; SOB; son of a bitch; whoreson (insulting terms of address for people who are stupid or irritating or ridiculous)

bore; dullard (a person who evokes boredom)

cold fish (an aloof unemotional person)

creep; spook; weirdie; weirdo; weirdy (someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric)

critic (someone who frequently finds fault or makes harsh and unfair judgments)

bitch; cunt (a person (usually but not necessarily a woman) who is thoroughly disliked)

cynic; faultfinder (someone who is critical of the motives of others)

aggravator; annoyance (an unpleasant person who is annoying or exasperating)

grabber (an unpleasant person who grabs inconsiderately)

churl; crank; crosspatch; grouch; grump (a bad-tempered person)

incubus (someone who depresses or worries others)

joker; turkey (a person who does something thoughtless or annoying)

demon; devil; fiend; monster; ogre (a cruel wicked and inhuman person)

oppressor (a person of authority who subjects others to undue pressures)

nuisance; pain; pain in the neck (a bothersome annoying person)

pawer (a person who handles or caresses in a clumsy or overfamiliar manner)


 Context examples 


I made his honour my most humble acknowledgments for the good opinion he was pleased to conceive of me, but assured him at the same time, “that my birth was of the lower sort, having been born of plain honest parents, who were just able to give me a tolerable education; that nobility, among us, was altogether a different thing from the idea he had of it; that our young noblemen are bred from their childhood in idleness and luxury; that, as soon as years will permit, they consume their vigour, and contract odious diseases among lewd females; and when their fortunes are almost ruined, they marry some woman of mean birth, disagreeable person, and unsound constitution (merely for the sake of money), whom they hate and despise. That the productions of such marriages are generally scrofulous, rickety, or deformed children; by which means the family seldom continues above three generations, unless the wife takes care to provide a healthy father, among her neighbours or domestics, in order to improve and continue the breed. That a weak diseased body, a meagre countenance, and sallow complexion, are the true marks of noble blood; and a healthy robust appearance is so disgraceful in a man of quality, that the world concludes his real father to have been a groom or a coachman. The imperfections of his mind run parallel with those of his body, being a composition of spleen, dullness, ignorance, caprice, sensuality, and pride.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)



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