Distaste
[dɪs'teɪst] or [dɪs'test]
Definition
(n.) Aversion of the taste; dislike, as of food or drink; disrelish.
(n.) Discomfort; uneasiness.
(n.) Alienation of affection; displeasure; anger.
(v. t.) Not to have relish or taste for; to disrelish; to loathe; to dislike.
(v. t.) To offend; to disgust; to displease.
(v. t.) To deprive of taste or relish; to make unsavory or distasteful.
(v. i.) To be distasteful; to taste ill or disagreeable.
Typed by Laverne
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Disrelish, disinclination, aversion, dislike, repugnance, disgust, displeasure, dissatisfaction.
Editor: Maureen
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See TASTE]
Checked by Jeannette
Definition
n. oppositeness or aversion of taste: dislike of food: dislike: disgust.—v.t. (arch.) to dislike: (obs.) to offend: (Shak.) to spoil the taste of.—v.i. (Shak.) to be distasteful.—adj. Distaste′ful nauseous to the taste: unpleasant: (Shak.) indicating distaste.—adv. Distaste′fully.—n. Distaste′fulness.
Typist: Lycurgus
Examples
- Till you chose to turn her into a friend, her mind had no distaste for her own set, nor any ambition beyond it. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Now, however, as he walked home from Mrs. Mingott's, he was conscious of a growing distaste for what lay before him. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- As was always the case with her, this moral repulsion found a physical outlet in a quickened distaste for her surroundings. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- She lay back, looking about the poor slit of a room with a renewal of physical distaste. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- He listened with a shade of distaste to her rhapsody, then he said: 'For all that, I don't like it. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Lily felt for these objects the same distaste which the prisoner may entertain for the fittings of the court-room. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- He soon conquered my latent distaste; I endeavoured to watch him and Perdita, and to keep in mind every thing I had heard to his disadvantage. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- He transacted public business with distaste, and hastened from it to the solitude which was at once his bane and relief. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- He took out a number of small steel splinters from my thighs with delicate and refined distaste. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- He was induced to look with extreme disapprobation, and at last with distaste, on my father's imprudence and follies. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Was it a growing distaste for her task, or actual physical disability? Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- France, Sweden, Denmark, all found it wiser to overcome their first distaste for regicide and allied themselves with England. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
Edited by Jonathan