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unpleasantly

/ənˈpɫɛzəntɫi/ adv

In an unpleasant manner.

Word Origin From Latin placere 'to please, be acceptable' — the same root that gives us please, pleasure, and complacent. Unpleasantly is literally 'not in a pleasing manner.' The -ant suffix makes it an adjective (unpleasant), then -ly turns it into an adverb. The negative sense is straightforward, but the root placere also connects to placid (calm, pleasing) and implacable (cannot be pleased).

adv In an unpleasant manner.

The room smelled unpleasantly of stale cigarette smoke.

(副词) 令人不快地；讨厌地；难闻地

房间里难闻地弥漫着陈旧的烟味。

(adverbio) desagradablemente; de manera desagradable [De manera desagradable.]

La habitación olía **desagradablemente** a humo de cigarro rancio.

(adverbe) désagréablement; déplaisamment [D'une manière désagréable ou déplaisante.]

La pièce sentait unpleasantly la vieille fumée de cigarette.

(Adverb) unangenehm; widerlich [Auf eine unangenehme, störende oder abstoßende Weise.]

Der Raum roch **unpleasantly** nach abgestandenem Zigarettenrauch.

(副詞) 不快に、不快な様子で。

部屋は古いタバコの煙で不快な臭いが漂っていた。

(advérbio) desagradavelmente; de modo desagradável [De maneira desagradável.]

O quarto tinha um cheiro desagradável de cigarro velho.

Synonyms: disagreeably offensively nastily unkindly horribly terribly awfully distressingly Antonyms: pleasantly agreeably nicely kindly
Word parts: un + pleas + ant + ly

Common collocations

be verb so adv to prep smile verb of prep with prep at prep not adv in prep

Related words

unpleasantness pleased pleasing pleasure displeased

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