distaste

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: dĭs-tāstʹ, IPA: /dɪsˈteɪst/, X-SAMPA: /dIs"teIst/
• Rhymes: -eɪst

Noun

distaste (uncountable)

1. a feeling of dislike, aversion or antipathy

Translations

feeling of dislike

• Bulgarian: отвращение, антипатия, неразположение

• Irish: déistin (ga) f

Derived terms

• distasteful

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, Troilus and Cressida, Act II, Scene 2.

     Although my will distaste what it elected

   • 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, II.4.1.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
   • 1603, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Othello, Act 3, Scene 3.

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

References

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

Anagrams

• staidest

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Italian

Verb

distaste

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

Anagrams

• destasti
• dettassi

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Spanish

Verb

distaste (infinitive distar)

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