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spiacevole

unpleasant, disagreeable

adjective spyah-CHEH-voh-leh Rare

Usage Note

Spiacevole is the opposite of piacevole ('pleasant'). It agrees in gender and number but has a single form for masculine and feminine: un incontro spiacevole, una situazione spiacevole. It tends to be more formal than brutto ('bad') for describing experiences.

Examples

"È stata una situazione spiacevole."

Natural Translation

It was an unpleasant situation.

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