distaste

[dis·taste]

When you're disgusted by something, or simply dislike it, you have a distaste for it. You might have such a distaste for the smell of meat cooking that you only go to vegetarian restaurants.

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Aversion of the taste; dislike, as of food or drink; disrelish.

Noun
a feeling of intense dislike


n.
Aversion of the taste; dislike, as of food or drink; disrelish.

n.
Discomfort; uneasiness.

n.
Alienation of affection; displeasure; anger.

v. t.
Not to have relish or taste for; to disrelish; to loathe; to dislike.

v. t.
To offend; to disgust; to displease.

v. t.
To deprive of taste or relish; to make unsavory or distasteful.

v. i.
To be distasteful; to taste ill or disagreeable.


Distaste

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.
3. Alienation of affection; displeasure; anger.
On the part of Heaven, Now alienated, distance and distaste.
Syn. -- Disrelish; disinclination; dislike; aversion; displeasure; dissatisfaction; disgust.

Distaste

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.
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.
3. To deprive of taste or relish; to make unsavory or distasteful. Drayton.

Distaste

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.

Aversion of the taste; dislike, as of food or drink; disrelish.

Not to have relish or taste for; to disrelish; to loathe; to dislike.

To be distasteful; to taste ill or disagreeable.

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Usage Examples

If our soldiers are not overburdened with money, it is not because they have a distaste for riches if their lives are not unduly long, it is not because they are disinclined to longevity.

While I've had a great distaste for what's usually called song in modern poetry or for what's usually called music, I really don't think of speech as so far from song.

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Other Usage Examples

The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.

The British are supposed to be particularly averse to intellectuals, a prejudice closely bound up with their dislike of foreigners. Indeed, one important source of this Anglo-Saxon distaste for highbrows and eggheads was the French revolution, which was seen as an attempt to reconstruct society on the basis of abstract rational principles.

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