unpleasant

Modifying Another Word

• downright: Other modifications to wheels, tires and suspension can also make an already firm ride downright unpleasant.
• distinctly: This pleasant man led a distinctly unpleasant party to its highest ever representation in the House of Commons.
• mildly: The trains have improved a lot over the years, the journey used to be dreadful, now it is just mildly unpleasant.
• deeply: Didn't she realize I was a cold, deeply unpleasant man, not interested in anything except himself.
• thoroughly: What may be good for some may be thoroughly unpleasant for others.
• rather: For the first time, he noticed a rather unpleasant smell in the tunnel.

Adjective complement with noun phrase

• make: The combination of these symptoms with the rash can make shingles very unpleasant.
• find: None of my clients has ever found the experience unpleasant.

Modifies a noun

• odor: A specifically formulated additive to control unpleasant odors in your cat's litter tray.
• side-effect: Apart from being wasteful, just removing the old Exchange servers may have unpleasant side-effects.
• smell: For the first time, he noticed a rather unpleasant smell in the tunnel.
• sensation: Around 10 per cent of patients will experience some unpleasant sensations of the face which may affect the quality of life.
• surprise: I think that is an unpleasant surprise for many people.
• odor: The logs, green lumber, and lumber not completely air dried often exhibit a stong, unpleasant odor.

Used with adjective complement

• smell: Their diapers also smell less unpleasant than those of bottlefed babies!
• taste: However you may not wish to drink the water, or give it to your family, because it looks or tastes unpleasant.
• seem: The City doesn't really seem so very unpleasant.
• become: Yet when the lungs must take over part of the bowel job the breath becomes unpleasant.
• feel: Imagine how unpleasant stagnant air or water can be, likewise if we stagnate we feel unpleasant.
• sound: Being up to my neck in cold water whilst trying to get readings from a temperamental compass and clinometer sounded deeply unpleasant.