0 not enjoyable or pleasant: --
When we complained, the waiter got very unpleasant with us.
the unpleasant truth
an unpleasant surprise
1 not attractive or enjoyable or easy to like: --
An unpleasant happening is not an 'incident' but an incidence while a decision does not set a bad 'precedent' but a bad precedence.
This results in euphemisms, since an existing word may be avoided because it gives a misleading or unpleasant impression.
But when pain is absent or minimal, we might also represent an unpleasant reminder of a bad time.
Thus, people who are more troubled and who have mental health problems tend to have more unpleasant and negative dreams.
However, the involvement of older carers in the more unpleasant aspects of nursing care, involving blood, waste products or bodily fluids, is never questioned.
While insults can be more unpleasant than injuries, the capacity to trade gibes does not imply debilitating pain.
The unpleasant voice is found to suffer from pressed phonation, lack of a singer's formant, irregular vibrato and insufficient pitch accuracy.
Incontinence and erosion of the intact body are so unpleasant that they are rarely addressed publicly.
