Hypertext Webster Gateway: "distaste"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

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. --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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

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. --Shak.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

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.
--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.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

distaste
n : a feeling of intense dislike [syn: {antipathy}, {aversion}]


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