Usually means: Dissatisfaction or annoyance with something.
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We found 25 dictionaries that define the word displeasure:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. displeasure: Merriam-Webster
  2. displeasure: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. displeasure: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. displeasure: Collins English Dictionary
  5. displeasure: Vocabulary.com
  6. Displeasure, displeasure: Wordnik
  7. displeasure: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. displeasure: Wiktionary
  9. displeasure: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. displeasure: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. displeasure: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Displeasure, displeasure: Dictionary.com
  13. displeasure: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Displeasure: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. displeasure: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. displeasure: Rhymezone
  17. Displeasure: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. displeasure: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. displeasure: FreeDictionary.org
  20. displeasure: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. displeasure: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. displeasure: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. displeasure: Legal dictionary

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▸ noun:  A feeling of being displeased with something or someone; dissatisfaction; disapproval.
▸ noun:  That which displeases; cause of irritation or annoyance; offence; injury.
▸ noun:  A state of disgrace or disfavour.
▸ verb:  (archaic) To displease or offend.

Similar:
displeasedness, displeasingness, unpleasure, dissatisfaction, discontentment, displeasantness, offense, disappointedness, discontention, dissatisfiedness, more...

Opposite:
pleasure, satisfaction, contentment, gratification

Phrases:
express displeasure, mild displeasure, shows displeasure at, showed displeasure, continuous displeasure, more...

Adjectives:
divine, great, royal, high, much, extreme, severe, official, hot, serious, public

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Similar:
displeasedness, displeasingness, unpleasure, dissatisfaction, discontentment, displeasantness, offense, disappointedness, discontention, dissatisfiedness, more...

Opposite:
pleasure, satisfaction, contentment, gratification

Phrases:
express displeasure, mild displeasure, shows displeasure at, showed displeasure, continuous displeasure, emotion involving extreme displeasure, more...

Adjectives:
divine, great, royal, high, much, extreme, severe, official, hot, serious, public

Colors:
    dark gray,     olive green,     mustard yellow,     dull brown,     murky green, more...



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