displeasure

1. 1.

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

   Broaderdissatisfactionannoyance

Other forms of displeasure

plural

displeasures·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about displeasure

What does displeasure mean?

displeasure means "the feeling of being displeased or annoyed or dissatisfied with someone or something".

How many syllables are in displeasure?

displeasure has 3 syllables: di-spleas-ure. The stress falls on "spleas". In IPA it is /dɪˈsplɛʒɚ/.

Is displeasure a common word?

displeasure is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.