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DISRELISH

Definition: DISRELISH

DISRELISH

Noun

1. Absence of relishing or palatable quality; bad taste; nauseousness.

2. Want of relish; dislike (of the palate or of the mind); distaste; a slight degree of disgust; as, a disrelish for some kinds of food.

Transitive verb

1. To deprive of relish; to make nauseous or disgusting in a slight degree.

2. Not to relish; to regard as unpalatable or offensive; to feel a degree of disgust at.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "DISRELISH" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)


Synonyms within Context: DISRELISH

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Dislike

Verb: mislike misrelish, dislike, disrelish; mind, object to; have rather not, would rather not, prefer not to, not care for; have a dislike for, conceive a dislike to, entertain a dislike for, take a dislike to, have an aversion to, have an aversion for; have no taste for, have no stomach for.

Noun: dislike, distaste, disrelish, disinclination, displacency.

Hate

Verb: hate, detest, abominate, abhor, loathe; recoil at, shudder at; shrink from, view with horror, hold in abomination, revolt against, execrate;scowl; disrelish; (dislike).

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: DISRELISH

English words defined with "DISRELISH": Disrelished, Disrelishing. (references)

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Modern Translation: DISRELISH

Language Translations for "DISRELISH"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

nuk pëlqej (disfavor, disfavour, dislike, hate), nuk dua (be disinclined), neveri (abhorrence, abomination, aversion, contempt, disdain, disgust, distaste, execration, gorge, horror, loathing, nausea, odiousness, odium, recoil, repugnance, repulsion, revolt, scorn), mospëlqim (antipathy, aversion, disfavor, disfavour, dislike, distaste, indisposition, non-compliance, objection, scunner). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏كراهية (antipathy, aversion, dislike, distaste, hate, hatred, odium, repugnance). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

отвращение (abhorrence, abomination, allergy, antipathy, detestation, disgust, distaste, execration, horror, loathing, nausea, odium, phobia, recoil, reluctance, repugnance, repulsion, revolt, scunner, sickener), отвращавам се от (abominate, distaste, execrate, loathe), неодобрение (censure, deprecation, disapprobation, disapproval, discontent, discouragement, disfavor, disfavour, objection, reprehension), не обичам (abominate, dislike), мразя (abhor, detest, hate, loathe). (various references)

   

Czech

  

nemít rád co. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

irtózik (to abhor), irtózás (averseness, aversion, distaste, horror, loathing, repulsion, shudder, shuddering). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

isrelishday

   

Portuguese

  

repugnância (abhorrence, aversion, backwardness, disgust, disincline, dislike, distaste, loathing, nausea, reluctance, repugnance, repulsion, revolt, scunner), ignorar o regulamento, aversão (abhorrence, aversion, complex, despite, disgust, disinclination, dislike, distaste, grudge, hate, hatred, hors d'oeuvre, impatient, loathing, rancor, rancour, reluctance, repugnance, repulsion, revolt), antipatia (antipathy, aversion, dislike, distaste, hate, hatred, repugnance). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

dezgust (abhorrence, abomination, aversion, disgust, distaste, fulsomness, horror, loathing, repugnance, weariness), nu-i plãcea (dislike), aversiune (abhorrence, aversion, detestation of, idiosyncrasy, indisposition, loathing, objection, quarrel, recoil, repugnance, repulsion, revolt), avea aversiune faţã de (take a dislike to). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

нерасположение (indisposition), не любить (abominate, dislike, loathe, object). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

ver a (spy, tempt). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

motvilja (antipathy, aversion, dislike, distaste, objection, repulsion, revulsion), avsky (abhor, abhorance, abhorrence, abominate, abomination, antipathy, be detested, detest, detestation, disgust, execrate, execration, hate, loathe, loathing, repugnance), äckel (disgust, loathing, louses, nausea, repulsive chap, stinker). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

tiksinme (disgust, distaste, execration), nefret etme, hoşlanmama (antipathy, aversion, dislike, distaste), beğenmeme (disapprobation, disapproval, dislike, scunner). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

ставитися неприязно, неприязнь (distaste, down, enmity, objection, spite), бути огидним. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

sự không thú, sự không thích (disinclination, dislike, distaste, objection, reluctance), sự không ưa (disinclination, dislike, distaste, indisposedness, indisposition), sự chán ghét (alienation, disinclination, distaste). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: DISRELISH

Derivations

Words beginning with "DISRELISH": disrelished, disrelishes, disrelishing. (additional references)


Misspellings

"DISRELISH" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Durleigh. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: DISRELISH

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-h-i-i-l-r-s-s"

-2 letters: dishier, hirsels, hirsled, hirsles, shields, sidlers, sliders.

-3 letters: diesis, dishes, hiders, hirsel, hirsle, hissed, hisser, idlers, irides, irised, irises, relish, resids, rishis, sherds, shield, shiels, shiers, shires, shreds, sidler, sidles, slider, slides.

-4 letters: deils, delis, dirls, dress, dries, heils, heirs, herds, herls, hider, hides, hired, hires, idler, idles, irids, isled, isles, issei, lehrs.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-h-i-i-l-r-s-s"
 

+2 letters: disrelished, disrelishes, soldiership.

 

+3 letters: disrelishing, shipbuilders, soldierships.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: DISRELISH


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

44 49 53 52 45 4C 49 53 48

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-..    ..    ...    .-.    .    .-..    ..    ...    ....

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000100 01001001 01010011 01010010 01000101 01001100 01001001 01010011 01001000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#73 &#83 &#82 &#69 &#76 &#73 &#83 &#72

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0049 0053 0052 0045 004C 0049 0053 0048

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

384353523946435342

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Translations: Modern
4. Derivations
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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