Synonyms: unpleasant
Definition: disagreeable to the senses, to the mind, or feelings
Usage: an unpleasant personality; unpleasant repercussions; unpleasant odors
Similar words: sulfurous, sulphurous, caustic, blistering, bitter, acerb, acerbic, acid, acrid, virulent, vitriolic
Definition: harsh or corrosive in tone
Usage: an acerbic tone piercing otherwise flowery prose; a barrage of acid comments; her acrid remarks make her many enemies; bitter words; blistering criticism; caustic jokes about political assassination, talk-show hosts and medical ethics; a sulfurous denunciation; a vitriolic critique
Similar words: beastly, god-awful, hellish
Definition: very unpleasant
Usage: hellish weather; stop that god-awful racket
Similar words: grim, dour, forbidding
Definition: harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance
Usage: a dour, self-sacrificing life; a forbidding scowl; a grim man loving duty more than humanity; undoubtedly the grimmest part of him was his iron claw- J.M.Barrie
Similar words: dreadful
Definition: very unpleasant
Similar words: embarrassing, mortifying
Definition: causing to feel shame or chagrin or vexation
Usage: the embarrassing moment when she found her petticoat down around her ankles; it was mortifying to know he had heard every word
Definition: unpleasantly stern
Usage: wild and harsh country full of hot sand and cactus; the nomad life is rough and hazardous
Similar words: harsh
Definition: disagreeable to the senses
Usage: the harsh cry of a blue jay; harsh cognac; the harsh white light makes you screw up your eyes; harsh irritating smoke filled the hallway
Similar words: hot
Definition: very unpleasant or even dangerous
Usage: make it hot for him; in the hot seat; in hot water
Similar words: sore, painful, afflictive
Definition: causing misery or pain or distress
Usage: it was a sore trial to him; the painful process of growing up
Similar words: rebarbative, repellant, repellent
Definition: serving or tending to repel
Usage: he became rebarbative and prickly and spiteful; I find his obsequiousness repellent
Similar words: sharp, sharp-worded, tart
Definition: harsh
Usage: sharp criticism; a sharp-worded exchange; a tart remark
Similar words: ungrateful
Definition: disagreeable
Usage: I will not perform the ungrateful task of comparing cases of failure- Abraham Lincoln
Similar words: unhappy
Definition: causing discomfort
Usage: the unhappy truth