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Distaste
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Part of speech: noun (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.
Synonyms: Disrelish; disinclination; dislike; aversion; displeasure; dissatisfaction; disgust.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 3
Part of speech: verb (v.)
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.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 3 of 3
Part of speech: verb (v.)
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.