Word Meanings - UNPLEASIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Unpleasant. "An unpleasive passion." Bp. Hall.

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• PASSIONAL
  Of or pertaining to passion or the passions; exciting, influenced by, or ministering to, the passions. -- n.
• PASSIONLESS
  Void of passion; without anger or emotion; not easily excited; calm. "Self-contained and passionless." Tennyson.
• UNPLEASANTRY
  1. Want of pleasantry. 2. A state of disagreement; a falling out. Thackeray.
• UNPLEASIVE
  Unpleasant. "An unpleasive passion." Bp. Hall.
• PASSIONATE
  1. Capable or susceptible of passion, or of different passions; easily moved, excited or agitated; specifically, easily moved to anger; irascible; quick-tempered; as, a passionate nature. Homer's Achilles is haughty and passionate. Prior.
• PASSIONARY
  A book in which are described the sufferings of saints and martyrs. T. Warton.
• PASSIONTIDE
  The last fortnight of Lent.
• UNPLEASANT
  Not pleasant; not amiable or agreeable; displeasing; offensive. -- Un*pleas"ant*ly, adv. -- Un*pleas"ant*ness, n.
• PASSIONATELY
  1. In a passionate manner; with strong feeling; ardently. Sorrow expresses itself . . . loudly and passionately. South. 2. Angrily; irascibly. Locke.
• PASSIONATENESS
  The state or quality of being passionate.
• PASSION
  1. A suffering or enduring of imposed or inflicted pain; any suffering or distress ; specifically, the suffering of Christ between the time of the last supper and his death, esp. in the garden upon the cross. "The passions of this time." Wyclif
• PASSIONIST
  A member of a religious order founded in Italy in 1737, and introduced into the United States in 1852. The members of the order unite the austerities of the Trappists with the activity and zeal of the Jesuits and Lazarists. Called also Barefooted
• COMPASSIONATELY
  In a compassionate manner; mercifully. Clarendon.
• OUTPASSION
  To exceed in passion.
• INCOMPASSIONATE
  Not compassionate; void of pity or of tenderness; remorseless. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ly, adv. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ness, n.
• IMPASSIONABLE
  Excitable; susceptible of strong emotion.
• IMPASSIONATE
  Strongly affected. Smart.
• EMPASSION
  To move with passion; to affect strongly. See Impassion. Those sights empassion me full near. Spenser.
• IMPASSION
  To move or affect strongly with passion. Chapman.
• DISPASSIONED
  Free from passion; dispassionate. "Dispassioned men." Donne.
• EMPASSIONATE
  Strongly affected. The Briton Prince was sore empassionate. Spenser.
• UNPASSIONATE
  Not passionate; dispassionate. -- Un*pas"sion*ate*ly, adv.
• COMPASSIONATE
  1. Having a temper or disposition to pity; sympathetic; merciful. There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate. South. 2. Complaining; inviting pity; pitiable. Shak. Syn. -- Sympathizing; tender;
• COMPASSION
  Literally, suffering with another; a sensation of sorrow excited by the distress or misfortunes of another; pity; commiseration. Womanly igenuity set to work by womanly compassion. Macaulay. Syn. -- Pity; sympathy; commiseration; fellow-feeling;
• DISPASSIONATE
  1. Free from passion; not warped, prejudiced, swerved, or carried away by passion or feeling; judicial; calm; composed. Wise and dispassionate men. Clarendon. 2. Not dictated by passion; not proceeding from temper or bias; impartial;
• COMPASSIONATENESS
  The quality or state of being compassionate.