distaste
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: dĭs-tāstʹ, IPA(key): /dɪsˈteɪst/
- Rhymes: -eɪst
Noun
distaste (usually uncountable, plural distastes)
- 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
Derived terms
Translations
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, “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:
- 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.
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- (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,
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- (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.
Italian
Verb
distaste
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