distaste

dis- +‎ taste

• enPR: dĭs-tāstʹ, IPA^(key): /dɪsˈteɪst/
• Rhymes: -eɪst

distaste (usually uncountable, plural distastes)

1. A feeling of dislike, aversion or antipathy.
2. (obsolete) Aversion of the taste; dislike, as of food or drink; disrelish.

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3. (obsolete) Discomfort; uneasiness.
   • Francis Bacon

     Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.

4. Alienation of affection; displeasure; anger.
   • Milton

     On the part of Heaven, / Now alienated, distance and distaste.

• distasteful

distaste (third-person singular simple present distastes, present participle distasting, simple past and past participle distasted)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To dislike.
   • c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene ii], column 1:

     How may I auoyde / (Although my will diſtaſte what it elected) / The Wife I choſe, there can be no euaſion / To blench from this, and to ſtand firme by honour.

   • 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford: Printed by Iohn Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 216894069; The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd corrected and augmented edition, Oxford: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, 1624, OCLC 54573970, partition II, section 4, member 1, subsection 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.

2. (intransitive) to be distasteful; to taste bad
   • c. 1603–1604, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act 3, (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)]:

     , Scene 3.

     Dangerous conceits are, in their natures, poisons. / Which at the first are scarce found to distaste,

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.

4. (obsolete, transitive) To deprive of taste or relish; to make unsavory or distasteful.

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• distaste in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

• staidest

distaste

1. second-person plural past historic of distare
2. second-person plural imperfect subjunctive of distare

• destasti
• dettassi

distaste

1. second-person singular (tu) preterite indicative of distar

distaste

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) preterite indicative form of distar.