Distasteful

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /dɪsˈteɪstfəɫ/
• Rhymes: -eɪstfÉ™l

Alternative forms

• distastefull archaic

Origin

distaste + -ful

Full definition of distasteful

Adjective

1. Having a bad or foul taste.
2. (figuratively) Unpleasant.
• 1918, W. B. Maxwell, The Mirror and the Lamp Chapter 12, All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill. It was ugly, gross. Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech. In the present connexion—or rather as a transition from the subject that started their conversation—such talk had been distressingly out of place.
3. Scrubbing the floors was a distasteful duty to perform.
4. Offensive.
   distasteful language

Antonyms

• pleasant, pleasing