Zest
[zest] or [zɛst]
Definition
(n.) A piece of orange or lemon peel, or the aromatic oil which may be squeezed from such peel, used to give flavor to liquor, etc.
(n.) Hence, something that gives or enhances a pleasant taste, or the taste itself; an appetizer; also, keen enjoyment; relish; gusto.
(n.) The woody, thick skin inclosing the kernel of a walnut.
(v. t.) To cut into thin slips, as the peel of an orange, lemon, etc.; to squeeze, as peel, over the surface of anything.
(v. t.) To give a relish or flavor to; to heighten the taste or relish of; as, to zest wine.
Editor: Nancy
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Relish, flavor, savor, taste, gust, gusto, smack, twang, appetizer.
Typist: Sonia
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Flavor, appetizer, gusto, gust, pleasure, enjoyment, relish, sharpener,recommendation, enhancement
ANT:Distaste, disrelish, detriment.
Typed by Enid
Definition
n. something that gives a relish: relish.
Editor: Rufus
Examples
- We hear too much in history of the campaigns and massacres of the Mongols, and not enough of their indubitable curiosity and zest for learning. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They would have over-emphasized the novelty of the adventure, trying to make him feel in it the zest of an escapade. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- His friend, Milt Adams, went West with quenchless zest for that kind of roving life and aimless adventure of which the serious minded Edison had already had more than enough. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Men to-day can feel almost as much zest in the building of the Panama Canal as they did in a military victory. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The very difference of our dispositions gave zest to these conversations. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- She turned back to the old ways with zest, away from him. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The game of Great Powers was resumed with zest, after an interval of sixty years, and it continued until it produced the catastrophe of 1914. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Such zests as his particular little phial of cayenne pepper and his pennyworth of pickles in a saucer, were not wanting. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
Typed by Ann