distasteful

English

Alternative forms

• distastefull (archaic)

Etymology

distaste +‎ -ful or dis- +‎ tasteful

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dɪsˈteɪstfəɫ/
• Rhymes: -eɪstfəl

Adjective

distasteful (comparative more distasteful, superlative most distasteful)

1. Having a bad or foul taste.
2. (figuratively) Unpleasant.
   • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 4293071:

     All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill. It was ugly, gross. Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech. In the present connexion—or rather as a transition from the subject that started their conversation—such talk had been distressingly out of place.

   Scrubbing the floors was a distasteful duty to perform.

3. Offensive.

   distasteful language

Antonyms

• pleasant, pleasing

Translations

having a bad or foul taste

• Bashkir: тәмһеҙ (tämheð)
• Bulgarian: отвратителен (bg) (otvratitelen)
• Chinese:

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• Finnish: pahanmakuinen (fi), vastenmielinen (fi)
• German: geschmacklos (de), widerwärtig (de)
• Manx: meevlaystal
• Maori: pāhare, matakawa, kūtaitai, kōtuhi
• Polish: niesmaczny (pl)
• Portuguese: desagradável (pt)
• Romanian: dezgustător (ro), neplăcut (ro) m
• Russian: отврати́тельный (ru) (otvratítelʹnyj), неприя́тный (ru) (neprijátnyj)
• Spanish: de mal gusto
• Swahili: karaha (sw)
• Swedish: illasmakande (sv), äcklig (sv)

unpleasant

• Bulgarian: неприятен (bg) (neprijaten), противен (bg) (protiven)
• Chinese:

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• Finnish: vastenmielinen (fi), epämiellyttävä (fi), mauton (fi)
• French: désagréable (fr), déplaisant (fr)
• German: unangenehm (de), widerwärtig (de)
• Manx: meevianagh, meehaitnyssagh
• Maori: matakawa
• Polish: niesmaczny (pl), przykry (pl)
• Portuguese: desagradável (pt)
• Romanian: dezagreabil (ro), neplăcut (ro)
• Russian: неприя́тный (ru) (neprijátnyj), проти́вный (ru) (protívnyj)
• Spanish: desagradable (es)
• Swahili: karaha (sw)
• Swedish: smaklös (sv)

offensive

• Bulgarian: отблъскващ (bg) (otblǎskvašt)
• Chinese:

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• Finnish: törkeä (fi), vastenmielinen (fi), loukkaava (fi), mauton (fi)
• French: de mauvais goût
• German: anstößig (de)
• Maori: pūkawa
• Plautdietsch: wadalich
• Portuguese: de mau gosto
• Romanian: ofensator (ro)
• Russian: оскорби́тельный (ru) (oskorbítelʹnyj)
• Spanish: chocante, ofensivo (es)
• Swahili: karaha (sw)
• Swedish: smaklös (sv), frånstötande (sv), osmaklig (sv)