About The Word Distaste
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Distaste
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What's The Definition Of Distaste?
[n] a feeling of intense dislike
Synonyms | Synonyms for Distaste: antipathy | aversion Related Terms | Find terms related to Distaste: abhorrence | antipathy | averseness | aversion | backwardness | bad books | ban | blackball | blackballing | complaint | cursoriness | dim view | disaffection | disaffinity | disagreement | disappointment | disapprobation | disapproval | discontent | discontentedness | discontentment | disenchantment | disesteem | disfavor | disgruntlement | disgust | disillusion | disillusionment | disinclination | dislike | disliking | disobedience | displeasure | disrelish | disrespect | dissatisfaction | dissent | exclusion | foot-dragging | fractiousness | grudging consent | grudgingness | horror | hostility | indignation | indisposedness | indisposition | indocility | intractableness | lack of enthusiasm | lack of zeal | loathing | low estimation | low opinion | mutinousness | nausea | nolition | objection | obstinacy | opposition | opposure | ostracism | perfunctoriness | protest | recalcitrance | recalcitrancy | refractoriness | refusal | rejection | reluctance | renitence | renitency | repugnance | repulsion | resistance | revulsion | slowness | stubbornness | sulk | sulkiness | sulks | sullenness | thumbs-down | unenthusiasm | unhappiness | unwillingness See Also | dislike Distaste In Webster's Dictionary \Dis*taste"\, n.
1. Aversion of the taste; dislike, as of food or drink;
disrelish. --Bacon.
2. Discomfort; uneasiness.
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes,
and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.
--Bacon.
3. Alienation of affection; displeasure; anger.
On the part of Heaven, Now alienated, distance and
distaste. --Milton.
Syn: Disrelish; disinclination; dislike; aversion;
displeasure; dissatisfaction; disgust.
\Dis*taste"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Distasted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Distasting}.] 1. Not to have relish or taste for; to disrelish; to loathe; to dislike. Although my will distaste what it elected. --Shak. 2. To offend; to disgust; to displease. [Obs.] He thought in no policy to distaste the English or Irish by a course of reformation, but sought to please them. --Sir J. Davies. 3. To deprive of taste or relish; to make unsavory or distasteful. --Drayton. \Dis*taste"\, v. i. To be distasteful; to taste ill or disagreeable. [Obs.] Dangerous conceits are, in their natures, poisons, Which at the are scarce found to distaste. --Shak. |
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