Synonyms for displeasure
dɪsˈplɛʒ ərdis·plea·sure

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1. displeasurenoun

   A feeling of being displeased with something or someone; dissatisfaction.

   Synonyms:
   unhappiness, dissatisfaction, discontent, discontentment

   Antonyms:
   satisfaction, contentment, pleasure, happiness

2. displeasurenoun

   Pain or discomfort.

   Synonyms:
   ache, discomfort, pain

   Antonyms:
   ease

3. displeasurenoun

   Disapproval.

   Synonyms:
   disapprobation, condemnation, disapproval

   Antonyms:
   approbation, approval, blessing

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1. displeasure

   Displeasure is the mildest and most general word. Choler and ire, now rare except in poetic or highly rhetorical language, denote a still, and the latter a persistent, anger. Temper used alone in the sense of anger is colloquial, tho we may correctly say a hot temper, a fiery temper, etc. Passion, tho a word of far wider application, may, in the singular, be employed to denote anger; "did put me in a towering passion," Shakespeare Hamlet act v, sc. 2. Anger is violent and vindictive emotion, which is sharp, sudden, and, like all violent passions, necessarily brief. Resentment (a feeling back or feeling over again) is persistent, the bitter brooding over injuries. Exasperation, a roughening, is a hot, superficial intensity of anger, demanding instant expression. Rage drives one beyond the bounds of prudence or discretion; fury is stronger yet, and sweeps one away into uncontrollable violence. Anger is personal and usually selfish, aroused by real or supposed wrong to oneself, and directed specifically and intensely against the person who is viewed as blameworthy. Indignation is impersonal and unselfish displeasure at unworthy acts (Latin indigna), i. e., at wrong as wrong. Pure indignation is not followed by regret, and needs no repentance; it is also more self-controlled than anger. Anger is commonly a sin; indignation is often a duty. Wrath is deep and perhaps vengeful displeasure, as when the people of Nazareth were "filled with wrath" at the plain words of Jesus (Luke iv, 28); it may, however, simply express the culmination of righteous indignation without malice in a pure being; as, the wrath of God. Impatience, fretfulness, irritation, peevishness, pettishness, petulance, and vexation express the slighter forms of anger. Irritation, petulance, and vexation are temporary and for immediate cause. Fretfulness, pettishness, and peevishness are chronic states finding in any petty matter an occasion for their exercise. Compare ACRIMONY; ENMITY; HATRED.

   Synonyms:
   anger, animosity, choler, exasperation, fretfulness, fury, impatience, indignation, ire, irritation, offense, passion, peevishness, pettishness, petulance, rage, resentment, temper, vexation, wrath

   Antonyms:
   amiability, charity, forbearance, gentleness, leniency, lenity, long-suffering, love, mildness, patience, peace, peaceableness, peacefulness, self-control, self-restraint

   Preposition:
   Anger at the insult prompted the reply. Anger toward the offender exaggerates the offense.

Princeton's WordNet

1. displeasurenoun

   the feeling of being displeased or annoyed or dissatisfied with someone or something

Matched Categories

1. • Annoyance
   • Dissatisfaction

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. displeasurenoun

   Synonyms:
   dissatisfaction, dislike, distaste, disapprobation

2. displeasurenoun

   Synonyms:
   anger, indignation, vexation, resentment, wrath

3. displeasurenoun

   Synonyms:
   offence, injury

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1. displeasurenoun

   Synonyms:
   disapprobation, dudgeon, dislike, disapproval, resentment, vexation, umbrage, dissatisfaction

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1. List of paraphrases for "displeasure":

   discontent, dissatisfaction, distaste, disapproval, disaffection, resentment, disgust, unhappiness, disappointment, dislike, annoyance

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How to use displeasure in a sentence?

1. Joe Keenan:

   There are, however, people in this world who seldom pick up a newspaper, people who, when watching television, sneer in displeasure and change channels at the first glimpse of an anchorperson. While such willfully uninformed citizens are rare, emerging from seclusion only to serve on juries in trials of great national significance, they do exist.

2. Kingman Brewster, Jr.:

   Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure.

3. Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott:

   We will be finding ways to make our displeasure felt, millions of Australians are feeling sickened by what might be about to happen in Indonesia.

4. J. Bronowski:

   Who has not hopedTo outrage an enemy's dignityWho has not been sweptBy the wish to hurtAnd who has not thought that the impersonal worldDeserves no better than to be destroyedBy one fabulous sign of his displeasure

5. State Department spokesman John Kirby:

   We've conveyed our strong displeasure.