distaste

English

Etymology

dis- + taste

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Francis Bacon to this entry?)
  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.

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Verb

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
  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.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Drayton to this entry?)

References

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

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Italian

Verb

distaste

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

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Portuguese

Verb

distaste

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

Spanish

Verb

distaste

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