different between uncivil vs unpleasant

uncivil

English

Etymology

un- +? civil

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -?v?l

Adjective

uncivil (comparative more uncivil, superlative most uncivil)

  1. Not civilized
    Synonyms: savage, barbarous, uncivilized
  2. Not civil; discourteous; impolite
    uncivil behavior
    • 2007, The Times, 24 Dec 2007:
      John Terry and Frank Lampard would not have reacted as the Nigerian did to the (admittedly X-rated) challenge that led to the Liverpool forward being sent off in last week’s Carling Cup quarter-final against Chelsea. All very dangerous, all very uncivil.
    • 2008, New York Times, 4 Feb 2008:
      But since you probably weren’t there, and be thankful for that, here is a quick primer on local, uncivil civics so that you might appreciate the recent political clamor in this part of eastern Tennessee.

Synonyms

  • See also Thesaurus:impolite

See also

  • incivil

References

  • uncivil in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
  • uncivil in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

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unpleasant

English

Etymology

From Middle English unplesaunt, equivalent to un- +? pleasant.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?n?plez?nt/

Adjective

unpleasant (comparative unpleasanter or more unpleasant, superlative unpleasantest or most unpleasant)

  1. Not pleasant.
    • c. 1596, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act III, Scene 2,[1]
      O sweet Portia,
      Here are a few of the unpleasant’st words
      That ever blotted paper!
    • 1722, Daniel Defoe, A Journal of the Plague Year, London: E. Nutt, p. 214,[2]
      It was indeed one admirable piece of Conduct in the said Magistrates, that the Streets were kept constantly clear, and free from all manner of frightful Objects, dead Bodies, or any such things as were indecent or unpleasant, unless where any Body fell down suddenly or died in the Streets []
    • 1811, Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility, Chapter 35,[3]
      The very circumstance, in its unpleasantest form, which they would each have been most anxious to avoid, had fallen on them.
    • 1865, Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter 1,[4]
      [] she had read several nice little histories about children who had got burnt, and eaten up by wild beasts and other unpleasant things, all because they would not remember the simple rules their friends had taught them []
    • 1921, Walter de la Mare, Memoirs of a Midget, Chapter 37,[5]
      And I dipped into novels so like the unpleasanter parts of my own life that they might just as well have been autobiographies.

Derived terms

  • unpleasantness

Synonyms

  • disagreeable

Translations

Anagrams

  • pennatulas

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