disˈpleasurable, a. rare.
[f. displeasure n. + -able, after pleasurable.]
The reverse of pleasurable; unpleasant, disagreeable. Hence disˈpleasurably adv.
| 1660 Hexham, Ongeriesticken, Incommodiously, Displeasurably. 1879 H. Spencer Data Ethics xiv. 245 The required modes of activity must remain for innumerable generations in some degree displeasurable. Ibid. 246 A displeasurable tax on the energies. |