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Something is displeasing when it makes you feel or not satisfied — it does not please you. This word sits on the thing (or the act), not on the person who feels it. A smell, a colour, a joke, or someone's manners can be displeasing. It is rather formal; in the street people more often say unpleasant, , or simply I don't like it. You will meet it in careful writing, reviews, and older books. It is usually softer than ugly or offensive: the thing need not shock you; it is just unwelcome. Though actually, English is tidy here in a way miss: the person is displeased, the thing is displeasing — two sides of one moment.
令人不悅的
組成Perhaps a calque of Old French desplaisant, from the verb desplere, “to displease”. By surface analysis: dis-（「不／相反」）+ pleasing（「讓人高興的」）。
同家族的字
- pleasingthe opposite shape: making you glad
- pleasethe verb at the root
- displeasedhow the person feels when something is displeasing
- displeasurethe feeling itself
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
displeasingadj/dɪsˈpliːzɪŋ/
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Unattractive, dislikable, objectionable.
- After the hurricane, the building was structurally sound but aesthetically displeasing.
- Mr. Hyde was pale and dwarfish, he gave an impression of deformity without any nameable malformation, he had a displeasing smile, he had borne himself to the lawyer with a sort of murderous mixture of timidity and boldness, and he spoke with a husky, whispering and somewhat broken voice; […]
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資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。