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Webster 1913 Edition
Distaste
Dis-taste′
,Noun.
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.
Syn. – Disrelish; disinclination; dislike; aversion; displeasure; dissatisfaction; disgust.
Dis-taste′
,Verb.
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. Shakespeare
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′
,Verb.
I.
To be distasteful; to taste ill or disagreeable.
[Obs.]
Dangerous conceits are, in their natures, poisons,
Which at the are scarce found to
Which at the are scarce found to
distaste
. Shakespeare
Webster 1828 Edition
Distaste
DISTASTE
,Noun.
1.
Aversion of the taste; dislike of food or drink; disrelish; disgust, or a slight degree of it. Distaste for a particular kind of food may be constitutional, or the effect of a diseased stomach.2.
Dislike; uneasiness.Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and adversity is not without comfort and hopes.
3.
Dislike; displeasure; alienation of affection.DISTASTE
, v.t.1.
To disrelish; to dislike; to lothe; as, to distaste drugs or poisons.2.
To offend; to disgust.He thought it no policy to distaste the English or Irish, but sought to please them.
3.
To vex; to displease; to sour.[The two latter significations are rare.]
Definition 2024
distaste
distaste
English
Noun
distaste (uncountable)
- A feeling of dislike, aversion or antipathy.
- (obsolete) Aversion of the taste; dislike, as of food or drink; disrelish.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Francis Bacon to this entry?)
- (obsolete) Discomfort; uneasiness.
- Francis Bacon
- Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.
- Francis Bacon
- Alienation of affection; displeasure; anger.
- Milton
- On the part of Heaven, / Now alienated, distance and distaste.
- Milton
Translations
feeling of dislike
Derived terms
Verb
distaste (third-person singular simple present distastes, present participle distasting, simple past and past participle distasted)
- (obsolete, transitive) To dislike.
- c. 1602, William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, Act 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.
- c. 1602, William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, Act II, Scene 2.
- (intransitive) to be distasteful; to taste bad
- 1603, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Othello, Act 3, Scene 3.
- Dangerous conceits are, in their natures, poisons. / Which at the first are scarce found to distaste,
- 1603, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Othello, Act 3, Scene 3.
- (obsolete, transitive) To offend; to disgust; to displease.
- Sir J. Davies
- He thought it no policy to distaste the English or Irish by a course of reformation, but sought to please them.
- Sir J. Davies
- (obsolete, transitive) To deprive of taste or relish; to make unsavory or distasteful.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Drayton to this entry?)
References
- distaste in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
Anagrams
Italian
Verb
distaste