Distaste

Pronunciation

• enPR: dÄ­s-tāstʹ, IPA: /dɪsˈteɪst/
• Rhymes: -eɪst

Full definition of distaste

Noun

1. A feeling of dislike, aversion or antipathy.
2. (obsolete) Aversion of the taste; dislike, as of food or drink; disrelish.
3. (obsolete) Discomfort; uneasiness.
• Francis BaconProsperity is not without many fears and distastes, and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.
4. Alienation of affection; displeasure; anger.
• MiltonOn the part of Heaven,
  Now alienated, distance and distaste.

Derived terms

• distasteful

Verb

1. (obsolete, transitive) To dislike.
• Shakespeare Troilus|II, Scene 2.Although my will distaste what it elected
• 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, II.4.1.i:the Romans distasted them so much, that they were often banished out of their city, as Pliny and Celsus relate, for 600 yeers not admitted.
2. (intransitive) to be distasteful; to taste bad
• Shakespeare Othello|3, Scene 3.Dangerous conceits are, in their natures, poisons.
  Which at the first are scarce found to distaste,
3. (obsolete, transitive) To offend; to disgust; to displease.
• Sir J. DaviesHe thought it no policy to distaste the English or Irish by a course of reformation, but sought to please them.
4. (obsolete, transitive) To deprive of taste or relish; to make unsavory or distasteful.

Anagrams

• staidest