4 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Distaste \Dis*taste"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Distasted}; p. pr &
vb n. {Distasting}.]
1. Not to have relish or taste for to disrelish; to loathe;
to dislike.
Although my will distaste what it elected. --Shak.
2. To offend; to disgust; to displease. [Obs.]
He thought in no policy to distaste the English or
Irish by a course of reformation, but sought to
please them --Sir J.
Davies.
3. To deprive of taste or relish; to make unsavory or
distasteful. --Drayton.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Distaste \Dis*taste"\, v. i.
To be distasteful; to taste ill or disagreeable. [Obs.]
Dangerous conceits are in their natures, poisons,
Which at the are scarce found to distaste. --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Distaste \Dis*taste"\, n.
1. Aversion of the taste; dislike, as of food or drink;
disrelish. --Bacon.
2. Discomfort; uneasiness.
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes,
and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.
--Bacon.
3. Alienation of affection; displeasure; anger.
On the part of Heaven, Now alienated, distance and
distaste. --Milton.
Syn: Disrelish; disinclination; dislike; aversion;
displeasure; dissatisfaction; disgust.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
distaste
n : a feeling of intense dislike [syn: {antipathy}, {aversion}]
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