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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
distaste en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /(ˌ)dɪsˈteɪst/ (General-American)
- /ˈdɪs(ˌ)teɪst/ (General-American, sometimes) in sentences
- (Southern-England) audio
Etymology
From dis- + taste.
Meanings
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(uncountable, usually) A feeling of dislike, aversion or antipathy.
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(obsolete, uncountable, usually) Aversion of the taste; dislike, as of food or drink; disrelish.
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes
1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Adversity”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:
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(obsolete, uncountable, usually) Discomfort; uneasiness.
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.
1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Adversity”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:
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(uncountable, usually) Alienation of affection; displeasure; anger.
On the part of Heav'n / Now alienated, diſtance and diſtaste,
1667, John Milton, “Book VIII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 8–9:
Forms
Deriveds
distasteful
Translations (18)
it avversione (feeling of dislike) · pt aversão (feeling of dislike) · bg погну́са (disrelish) · it antipatia (feeling of dislike) · ml നീരസം (feeling of dislike) · ga snamh (feeling of dislike) · bg отвраще́ние (feeling of dislike) · mi aniwatanga (feeling of dislike) · bg неразположе́ние (discomfort, uneasiness) · bg отвраще́ние (disrelish) · bg озлобле́ние (displeasure, anger) · sv avsmak (feeling of dislike) · bg неприя́зън (feeling of dislike) · eo malŝato (feeling of dislike) · ml അനിഷ്ടം (feeling of dislike) · ga déistin (feeling of dislike) · it disgusto (feeling of dislike) · bg антипа́тия (feeling of dislike)
distaste en · VERB
Pronunciation
- /(ˌ)dɪsˈteɪst/ (General-American)
- /ˈdɪs(ˌ)teɪst/ (General-American, sometimes) in sentences
- (Southern-England) audio
Etymology
From dis- + taste.
Meanings
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(obsolete, transitive) To dislike.
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.
c. 1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii], column 1:Plato made it a great ſigne of an intemperate and corrupt common-wealth, where Lawyers and Phyſitians did abound, and the Romanes diſtaſted them ſo much, that they were often baniſhed out of theire city, as Pliny and Celſus relate, for 600 yeares not admitted.
1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 4, member 1, subsection 1, page 296:
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(intransitive) To be distasteful; to taste bad
Dangerous conceits are, in their natures, poisons. / Which at the first are scarce found to distaste, […]
c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]:
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(obsolete, transitive) To offend; to disgust; to displease.
He thought it no policy to distaste the English or Irish by a course of reformation, but sought to please them.
1612, John Davies, Discoverie of the True Causes why Ireland was never entirely subdued:
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(obsolete, transitive) To deprive of taste or relish; to make unsavory or distasteful.
And vvhat auayl'd his Anſvver in that Caſe? / VVhich the time then did vtterly diſtaſte, / And look'd vpon him vvith ſo ſterne a Face, / As it his Actions vtterly diſgrac'd: […]
1630, Michael Drayton, “The Barons Warres. In the Reigne of Edward the Second. The Sixt Canto.”, in Poems: […], London: […] Willi[am] Stansby for Iohn Smethwicke, →OCLC, stanza 81, page 151:
Forms
Translations (7)
bg гнуся́ (to deprive of taste or relish) · bg гнуся́ (to offend, to disgust, to displease) · bg отвраща́вам (to offend, to disgust, to displease) · bg отвратя́ се+ от (to dislike) · bg отвратя́ (to offend, to disgust, to displease) · bg погнуся́вам (to offend, to disgust, to displease) · bg погнуся́ (to offend, to disgust, to displease)