Word Meanings - DISTASTE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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;

Additional info about word: DISTASTE

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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DISTASTE)

• Antipathy
• Repugnance
• dislike
• hatred
• detestation
• contrariety
• aversion
• distaste
• uncongeniality
• antagonism
• hostility
• opposition
• abhorrence
• Aversion
• Hatred
• repugnance
• antipathy
• Disgust
• Nausea
• loathing
• abomination

Related words: (words related to DISTASTE)

• CONTRARIETY
  1. The state or quality of being contrary; opposition; repugnance; disagreement; antagonism. There is a contrariety between those things that conscience inclines to, and those that entertain the senses. South. 2. Something which is contrary to,
• OPPOSITIONIST
  One who belongs to the opposition party. Praed.
• DISLIKE
  1. To regard with dislike or aversion; to disapprove; to disrelish. Every nation dislikes an impost. Johnson. 2. To awaken dislike in; to displease. "Disliking countenance." Marston. "It dislikes me." Shak.
• NAUSEANT
  A substance which produces nausea.
• ABOMINATION
  1. The feeling of extreme disgust and hatred; abhorrence; detestation; loathing; as, he holds tobacco in abomination. 2. That which is abominable; anything hateful, wicked, or shamefully vile; an object or state that excites disgust and hatred;
• HATRED
  Strong aversion; intense dislike; hate; an affection of the mind awakened by something regarded as evil. Syn. -- Odium; ill will; enmity; hate; animosity; malevolence; rancor; malignity; detestation; loathing; abhorrence; repugnance; antipathy.
• AVERSION
  1. A turning away. Adhesion to vice and aversion from goodness. Bp. Atterbury. 2. Opposition or repugnance of mind; fixed dislike; antipathy; disinclination; reluctance. Mutual aversion of races. Prescott. His rapacity had made him an object of
• DISTASTEFUL
  1. Unpleasant or disgusting to the taste; nauseous; loathsome. 2. Offensive; displeasing to the feelings; disagreeable; as, a distasteful truth. Distasteful answer, and sometimes unfriendly actions. Milton. 3. Manifesting distaste or
• DISGUSTFUL
  Provoking disgust; offensive to the taste; exciting aversion; disgusting. That horrible and disgustful situation. Burke.
• NAUSEATION
  The act of nauseating, or the state of being nauseated.
• DISLIKENESS
  Unlikeness. Locke.
• DISGUST
  To provoke disgust or strong distaste in; to cause loathing, as of the stomach; to excite aversion in; to offend the moral taste of; -- often with at, with, or by. To disgust him with the world and its vanities. Prescott. Ærius is expressly
• DISGUSTFULNESS
  The state of being disgustful.
• HATRACK
  A hatstand; hattree.
• ANTIPATHY
  1. Contrariety or opposition in feeling; settled aversion or dislike; repugnance; distaste. Inveterate antipathies against particular nations, and passionate attachments to others, are to be avoided. Washington. 2. Natural contrariety;
• LOATHER
  One who loathes.
• DISLIKELIHOOD
  The want of likelihood; improbability. Sir W. Scott.
• OPPOSITION
  The situation of a heavenly body with respect to another when in the part of the heavens directly opposite to it; especially, the position of a planet or satellite when its longitude differs from that of the sun 180º; -- signified by the symbol
• NAUSEA
  Seasickness; hence, any similar sickness of the stomach accompanied with a propensity to vomit; qualm; squeamishness of the stomach; loathing.
• NAUSEATIVE
  Causing nausea; nauseous.
• KSHATRIYA; KSHATRUYA
  The military caste, the second of the four great Hindoo castes; also, a member of that caste. See Caste.
• CONTRAVERSION
  A turning to the opposite side; antistrophe. Congreve.
• SELF-ABHORRENCE
  Abhorrence of one's self.