From Middle English unplesaunt, equivalent to un- + pleasant.

• IPA: /ʌnˈplɛzənt/

unpleasant (comparative unpleasanter, superlative unpleasantest)

1. Not pleasant.
   • c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act III, scene ii]:

     O sweet Portia,
     Here are a few of the unpleasant’st words
     That ever blotted paper!

   • 1811, [Jane Austen], chapter 35, in Sense and Sensibility […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC ↗:

     The very circumstance, in its unpleasantest form, which they would each have been most anxious to avoid, had fallen on them.

   • 1865 November (indicated as 1866), Lewis Carroll [pseudonym; Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], “Down the Rabbit-Hole”, in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, London: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC ↗, page 10 ↗:

     […] she had read several nice little histories about children who had got burnt, and eaten up by wild beasts and other unpleasant things, all because they would not remember the simple rules their friends had taught them: […]

• disagreeable

• French: déplaisant, pénible, désagréable
• German: unangenehm
• Italian: spiacevole, sgradevole, scostante, sgradito
• Portuguese: desagradável, injucundo
• Russian: неприя́тный
• Spanish: desagradable, desapacible