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{
"term": "unpleasant",
"partOfSpeech": "adjective",
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "b1",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "not pleasant or comfortable",
"sensetop": "unpleasant to do somethingunpleasant for somebody to do something",
"cefr": "b1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "an unpleasant experience/surprise/task"
},
{
"text": "The minerals in the water made it unpleasant to drink.",
"contextForm": "unpleasant to do something"
},
{
"text": "It can be unpleasant to sit next to a group of people arguing."
},
{
"text": "It must have been unpleasant for her neighbours to be exposed to the constant loud music.",
"contextForm": "unpleasant for somebody to do something"
},
{
"text": "Torrential made conditions unpleasant for both players and spectators."
},
{
"text": "What then took place was a deeply unpleasant attack."
},
{
"text": "an unpleasant truth/fact/reality/consequence"
},
{
"text": "an unpleasant feeling/sensation/memory"
},
{
"text": "an unpleasant smell/odour/taste"
},
{
"text": "His clothes smelled most unpleasant."
},
{
"text": "The overall feeling was a strange mixture of sensations, not altogether unpleasant."
},
{
"text": "tests which are unpleasant for patients"
},
{
"text": "There's an unpleasant smell coming from that cupboard."
}
],
"synonyms": "disagreeable",
"collocations": {
"verbs": ["be", "feel", "look"],
"adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"],
"preposition": ["for", "to"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "not kind, friendly or polite",
"sensetop": "unpleasant to somebodyunpleasant about somebody/something",
"cefr": "b1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "He was very unpleasant to me.",
"contextForm": "unpleasant to somebody"
},
{
"text": "You don't have to be so unpleasant about it. I said I was sorry.",
"contextForm": "unpleasant about somebody/something"
},
{
"text": "She said some very unpleasant things about you."
},
{
"text": "a thoroughly unpleasant man"
},
{
"text": "There was an unpleasant atmosphere in the room."
},
{
"text": "Things started to get unpleasant when the police were called."
}
],
"collocations": {
"verbs": ["be", "feel", "look"],
"adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"],
"preposition": ["for", "to"]
}
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ʌnˈpleznt/",
"audio": "un/unpleasant/unpleasant__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ʌnˈpleznt/",
"audio": "un/unpleasant/unpleasant__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": null
}