Word Meanings - DISPLEASE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

pref. des- + plaisir to please. See Please, and cf. 1. To make not pleased; to excite a feeling of disapprobation or dislike in; to be disagreeable to; to offend; to vex; -- often followed by with or at. It usually expresses less than to anger,

Additional info about word: DISPLEASE

pref. des- + plaisir to please. See Please, and cf. 1. To make not pleased; to excite a feeling of disapprobation or dislike in; to be disagreeable to; to offend; to vex; -- often followed by with or at. It usually expresses less than to anger, vex, irritate, or provoke. God was displeased with this thing. 1 Chron. xxi. 7. Wilt thou be displeased at us forever Psalms lxxxv. 5 (Bk. of Com. Prayer). This virtuous plaster will displease Your tender sides. J. Fletcher. Adversity is so wholesome . . . why should we be displeased therewith Barrow. 2. To fail to satisfy; to miss of. I shall displease my ends else. Beau. & Fl. Syn. -- To offend; disgust; vex; annoy; dissatisfy; chafe; anger; provoke; affront.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DISPLEASE)

• Offend
• Displease
• affront
• outrage
• irritate
• shock
• annoy
• pain
• wound
• nettle
• vex
• err
• fall

Related words: (words related to DISPLEASE)

• OFFENDANT
  An offender. Holland.
• NETTLER
  One who nettles. Milton.
• OUTRAGEOUS
  Of the nature of an outrage; exceeding the limits of right, reason, or decency; involving or doing an outrage; furious; violent; atrocious. "Outrageous weeping." Chaucer. "The most outrageous villainies." Sir P. Sidney. "The vile, outrageous
• OFFENDRESS
  A woman who offends. Shak.
• SHOCKDOG
  See 1
• AFFRONTEE
  One who receives an affront. Lytton.
• AFFRONTEDLY
  Shamelessly. Bacon.
• SHOCK-HEADED
  Having a thick and bushy head of hair.
• ANNOYANCE
  1. The act of annoying, or the state of being annoyed; molestation; vexation; annoy. A deep clay, giving much annoyance to passengers. Fuller. For the further annoyance and terror of any besieged place, they would throw into it dead bodies.
• ANNOYOUS
  Troublesome; annoying. Chaucer.
• ANNOYING
  That annoys; molesting; vexatious. -- An*noy"ing*ly, adv.
• WOUNDY
  Excessive. Such a world of holidays, that 't a woundy hindrance to a poor man that lives by his labor. L'Estrange.
• AFFRONTER
  One who affronts, or insults to the face.
• AFFRONTINGLY
  In an affronting manner.
• NETTLE
  A plant of the genus Urtica, covered with minute sharp hairs containing a poison that produces a stinging sensation. Urtica gracitis is common in the Northern, and U. chamædryoides in the Southern, United States. the common European species, U.
• WOUNDLESS
  Free from wound or hurt; exempt from being wounded; invulnerable. "Knights whose woundless armor rusts." Spenser. may miss our name, And hit the woundless air. Shak.
• AFFRONT
  affrontare to strike against, fr. L. ad + frons forehead, front. See 1. To front; to face in position; to meet or encounter face to face. All the sea-coasts do affront the Levant. Holland. That he, as 't were by accident, may here Affront Ophelia.
• OFFENDER
  One who offends; one who violates any law, divine or human; a wrongdoer. I and my son Solomon shall be counted offenders. 1 Kings i. 21.
• NETTLEBIRD
  the European whitethroat.
• AFFRONTE
  Face to face, or front to front; facing.
• ANNOY
  disturb or irritate, especially by continued or repeated acts; to tease; to ruffle in mind; to vex; as, I was annoyed by his remarks. Say, what can more our tortured souls annoy Than to behold, admire, and lose our joy Prior. 2. To molest,
• SHOCK
  A lot consisting of sixty pieces; -- a term applied in some Baltic ports to loose goods. (more info) quantity, threescore, MHG. schoc, Sw. skok, and also G. hocke a heap 1. A pile or assemblage of sheaves of grain, as wheat, rye, or the like, set
• SEA NETTLE
  A jellyfish, or medusa.
• 'SWOUNDS
  An exclamation contracted from God's wounds; -- used as an oath. Shak.
• SWOUND
  See LONGFELLOW