different between unpleasant vs inextricable
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)
- 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.
- c. 1596, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act III, Scene 2,[1]
Derived terms
- unpleasantness
Synonyms
- disagreeable
Translations
Anagrams
- pennatulas
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inextricable
English
Etymology
From Middle French inextricable, from Latin inextricabilis.
Adjective
inextricable
- (of a knot etc) Impossible to untie or disentangle.
- (of a problem) Impossible to solve.
- (of a maze etc) Impossible to escape from.
Translations
French
Adjective
inextricable (plural inextricables)
- inextricable
Further reading
- “inextricable” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Spanish
Adjective
inextricable (plural inextricables)
- inextricable
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