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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | disagreeable, not pleasant |
| Synonyms: | awful, bad, disgusting, displeasing, distasteful, nasty, nauseating, offensive, repulsive, rotten, sickening, sour, unappealing, unappetizing, unpalatable, unpleasant |
| Main Entry: | distasteful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | repulsive, unpleasant |
| Synonyms: | abhorrent, abominable, afflictive, bitter, detestable, disagreeable, dislikable, displeasing, flat, flavorless, galling, grievous, grody, gross*, hateful, icky, insipid, loathsome, nauseous, objectionable, obnoxious, odious, offensive, painful, repellent, repugnant, savorless, tasteless, unappetizing, undesirable, uninviting, unlikable, unpalatable, unsavory, yicky, yucky |
| Antonyms: | agreeable, delectable, delicious, palatable, pleasant, pleasing |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | ugly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unattractive |
| Synonyms: | animal, appalling, awful, bad-looking, beastly, deformed, disfigured, foul, frightful, grisly, gross, grotesque, hard-featured, hideous, homely, horrid, ill-favored, loathsome, misshapen, monstrous, not much to look at, plain, repelling, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, unbeautiful, uncomely, uninviting, unlovely, unprepossessing, unseemly, unsightly |
| Antonyms: | attractive, beautiful, lovely, pleasing |
| Main Entry: | unacceptable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not suitable or satisfactory |
| Synonyms: | below par, damaged, disagreeable, displeasing, distasteful, exceptionable, half-baked, ill-favored, improper, inadmissible, insupportable, lousy*, not up to snuff, objectionable, obnoxious, offensive, reject, repugnant, unappealing, undesirable, uninviting, unpleasant, unsatisfactory, unwanted, unwelcome, won't do |
| Antonyms: | acceptable, desirable, ok, satisfactory, suitable |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | unappetizing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | distasteful |
| Synonyms: | flat, flavorless, grody, gross, icky, insipid, savorless, stinky, tasteless, unappealing, unattractive, uninteresting, uninviting, unpalatable, unpleasant, unsavory, vapid, yucky |
| Antonyms: | appetizing, attractive, delicious, savory, tasty |
| Main Entry: | unappealing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not appealing |
| Synonyms: | banal, disgusting, dreary, dull, insipid, plain, somber, subfuscous, trite, ugly, unappetizing, unattractive, unbeauteous, uninviting, unpleasant |
| Antonyms: | appealing |
| Main Entry: | unhospitable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | forbidding |
| Synonyms: | abhorrent, disagreeable, dour, foreboding, frightening, glowering, grim, hostile, inhospitable, menacing, odious, off-putting, offensive, repellent, repulsive, sinister, threatening, tough*, ugly*, unapproachable, unfriendly, uninviting, unpleasant |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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