unpleasable
- adjective
- /ʌnˈplizəbl/
- Stop trying to shape yourself to please an unpleasable person.
Stop trying to shape yourself to please an unpleasable person.
- Stop trying to shape yourself to please an unpleasable person.
- It's important because otherwise you could easily sacrifice your entire life trying to please an unpleasable person.
Examples
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Kendall's still trying to please the unpleasable father.
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God was a very distant, iron-fisted, unpleasable deity.
Blog text (26) -
In fact, in her heart of hearts, Lee probably knew that even Yves would not please Sylvia, for when it came to Lee, her mother was unpleasable.
Fiction book (1996) -
It's challenging to work with an unpleasable manager who is never satisfied with any of our ideas.
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No matter how hard they tried, the team realized it was impossible to satisfy their unpleasable client.
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Trying to make her unpleasable friend happy felt like an endless task with no reward.
Synonyms
Not possible to meet a demand or to solve a problem
A person or feeling that always wants more and is never pleased
Impossible to calm or satisfy
Impossible to do or make happen
Not able to be made whole or replaced
Always wanting more and never feeling content
Impossible to calm or satisfy
Too strong to satisfy, stop, or put out
How Satisfied
Surface Forms
Morphology
unpleasable = pleasable (transparent) = un + please + able
The prefix 'un-' clearly negates the meaning of 'pleasable'.
Etymology
Unpleasable is made of un- meaning 'not', the verb please meaning 'to make happy', and the ending -able meaning 'able to be'. So, unpleasable literally means 'not able to be pleased', like someone you cannot satisfy no matter what you do.