unpleasurable

comparative more unpleasurable · superlative most unpleasurable

1. That gives displeasure.

   Before the advent of resensation there exists neither the known nor the unknown, only pleasurable, comfortable, or unpleasurable sensations which come and go. With resensation there arises the division into the familiar and the new, the unknown.

   1959, Ernest G. Schachtel, Metamorphosis: On the Conflict of Human Development and the Psychology of Creativity, page 151

   Synonyms: displeasing, nasty, unpleasant