Distaste

Definition: Distaste

Distaste

Noun

1. A feeling of intense dislike.

Date "distaste" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Synonyms: Distaste

Synonyms: antipathy (n), aversion (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Dislike	Noun: dislike, distaste, disrelish, disinclination, displacency.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Distaste

English words defined with "distaste": blue ♦ disgust, disgusted, dislike, Disrelish, Distasted, Distasteive, Distasting, Distasture ♦ fed up ♦ jaundiced ♦ piss off, puritan, puritanic, puritanical, put off ♦ repel, revolt ♦ sick, sick of ♦ tired of, turn off. (references)

Specialty definitions using "distaste": Fructose Intolerance ♦ Japorneck. (references)

Etymologies containing "distaste": Distasteive, Distasture. (references)

Play	Caption
	Reaction of distaste; dislike; a person making a terrible vocal sound.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Title	Author	Quote
Emma	Austen, Jane	Till you chose to turn her into a friend, her mind had no distaste for her own set, nor any ambition beyond it.
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	There was already between them all the distaste of a serious young man for a frivolous old man.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Distaste" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.44% of the time. "Distaste" is used about 356 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	99.44%	354	15,153
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	0.28%	1	339,140
Lexical Verb (base form)	0.28%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	356	N/A

Expression using "distaste": in distaste. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "distaste"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		nuk më pëlqen fare, neveri (abhorrence, abomination, aversion, contempt, disdain, disgust, disrelish, execration, gorge, horror, loathing, nausea, odiousness, odium, recoil, repugnance, repulsion, revolt, scorn), mospëlqim (antipathy, aversion, disfavor, disfavour, dislike, disrelish, indisposition, non-compliance, objection, scunner). (various references)

Arabic		‏كره الطعام, ‏كراهية (antipathy, aversion, dislike, disrelish, hate, hatred, odium, repugnance), ‏نفور (antipathy, aversion, disaffection, disinclination, dislike, estrangement, indisposition, offish, recoil, reluctance, repugnance, repulsion, revulsion, startle), ‏العيف كره الطعام. (various references)

Bulgarian		отвращение (abhorrence, abomination, allergy, antipathy, detestation, disgust, disrelish, execration, horror, loathing, nausea, odium, phobia, recoil, reluctance, repugnance, repulsion, revolt, scunner, sickener), отвращавам се от (abominate, disrelish, execrate, loathe), неразположение (ailment, discomfort, indisposition, pip). (various references)

Czech		odpor (antipathy, aversion, contradiction, disgust, dislike, nausea, opposition, protest, reluctance, repugnance, repulsion, resentment, resistance, revulsion). (various references)

Farsi		تنفر (Abhorrence, Disgust, Hate, Hatred), ازردن (Afflict, Aggrieve, Ail, Annoy, Goad, Grate, Gripe, Grit, Harrow, Harry, Hurt, Irk, Irritate, Lacerate, Mortify, Peeve, Prick, Rile, Tar), بی میلی (Disaffection, Dismay, Grudge, Lassitude, Reluctance), بی رغبتی , بدامدن . (various references)

Finnish		vastenmielisyys (antipathy, aversion, dislike, repugnance, repulsiveness), tympeys (disgust, flatness, staleness). (various references)

French		dégoût (disgust), répugnance (disgust), éc�"urement (discouragement, disgust). (various references)

German		widerwille (aversion, disgust, grudge, reluctancy, repugnance, repulsion, unwillingness). (various references)

Greek		αντιπάθεια (antipathy, disaffection, disinclination, dislike), αποστροφή (abhorrence, abomination, apostrophe, averseness, aversion, detestation, repugnance, repulsion), αηδία (abhorrence, disgust, eyesore, insipidity, insipidness, mawkishness, nausea, nauseousness, shucks, sliminess, vapid, vapidity). (various references)

Hungarian		utálat (abhorrence, abomination, detestation, disgust, dislike, execration, hatred, loathing), irtózás (averseness, aversion, disrelish, horror, loathing, repulsion, shudder, shuddering), ellenszenv (antipathy, aversion, disinclination, dislike, grudge, mislike, repugnance, scunner). (various references)

Indonesian		rasa tak suka. (various references)

Italian		disgusto (abhorrence, aversion, disgust, dislike, repugnance, unwillingness). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		不味 (unsavoriness). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ふみ (letter, unsavoriness, writings). (various references)

Manx		meevian (inappetency), amvlass (bad drink, bad taste, bad taste of liquids). (various references)

Norwegian		avsmak. (various references)

Pig Latin		istasteday

Portuguese		detestar (abhor, abominate, detest, find out, hate, loathe), desgosto (bitter, chagrin, discontent, disgust, displeasure, heartbreak, heartburn, ill, regret, scunner, sore, trouble), desagrado (disfavor, disfavour, dislike, pout, unpleasantness), repugnância (aversion, backwardness, disgust, disinclination, dislike, disrelish, loathing, nausea, reluctance, repugnance, repulsion, revolt, scunner), aversão (aversion, complex, despite, disgust, disinclination, dislike, disrelish, loathing, rancor, rancour, reluctance, repugnance, repulsion, revolt), antipatia (antipathy, aversion, dislike, disrelish, hate, hatred, repugnance), aborrecer (annoy, badger, blister, bore, bother, bug, burst with anger, disgust, displease, displeasure, fash, feeze, hate, hump, importune, irk, leech, loathe, molest, nag, nettle, offend, pester, pique, plague, put about, spite, tire, torment, trouble, vex). (various references)

Romanian		dezgust (abhorrence, abomination, aversion, disgust, disrelish, fulsomness, horror, loathing, repugnance, weariness), antipatie (antipathy, disinclination, dislike, enmity, indisposition, quarrel, repugnance). (various references)

Russian		отвращение (abhorrence, abomination, abominations, allergy, aversion, disgust, hatred, loathing, odium, recoil, reluctance, repugnance, repulsion, revulsion, scunner). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		nenaklonost (disfavor, disfavour, disinclination, dislike), biti nenaklonjen (disfavor, disfavour, disincline: be disinclined). (various references)

Spanish		disgusto (chagrin, disgust, disinterest, displeasure, dissatisfaction, miff, trouble, unpleasantness), disgustar (disgruntle, disgust, dissatisfy, miff), disgustado (disaffected, discontent, discontented, disgruntled, disgusted, dislike, displeased, dissatisfied, malcontent). (various references)

Swedish		avsmak (aversion, disgust, nausea). (various references)

Thai		ไม่ยอมรับ (have a distaste for, rule out, take a dim view of). (various references)

Turkish		tiksinme (disgust, disrelish, execration), sevmeme (aversion, dislike), nefret (abhorrence, abomination, animosity, animus, antipathy, aversion, contempt, despite, detestation, disgust, dislike, down, enmity, execration, hate, hatred, horror, loathing, miso-, odiousness, odium, repugnance, repulsion), hoşlanmama (antipathy, aversion, dislike, disrelish). (various references)

Ukrainian		вселяти неприязнь, нудота (aridity, aridness, nausea, qualm, queasiness, sickness, wamble), неприязнь (disrelish, down, enmity, objection, spite), мати відразу (detest). (various references)

Vietnamese		sự không thích (disinclination, dislike, disrelish, objection, reluctance), sự không ưa (disinclination, dislike, disrelish, indisposedness, indisposition), sự ghê tởm (abominableness, abomination, loathing, rankness, repugnance, repugnancy), sự chán ghét (alienation, disinclination, disrelish). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "distaste": distasted, distasteful, distastefully, distastefulness, distastefulnesses, distastes. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Distaste" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: disast, distase, distat, distate, distust, dustette. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "distaste" (pronounced di'stā"st)
4	-t ā" s t	foretaste, taste.
3	-ā" s t	aced, based, braced, chased, chaste, debased, defaced, disgraced, displaced, embraced, encased, erased, faced, graced, haste, interlaced, laced, misplaced, paced, paste, placed, raced, replaced, retraced, spaced, traced, unplaced, waist, waste.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: staidest.
	Words within the letters "a-d-e-i-s-s-t-t"
	-1 letter: disseat.
	-2 letters: asides, daises, dassie, deists, desist, sadist, siesta, stades, stated, states, steads, tasset, tassie, tasted, tastes, testis, tsades, tsadis.
	-3 letters: adits, aides, aside, assed, asset, dates, deist, diets, ditas, dites, easts, edits, ideas, sades, sadis, saids, sated, sates, satis, seats, setts, sides, sited, sites, stade, staid, state, stats, stead, stets, stied, sties.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-e-i-s-s-t-t"
	+1 letter: distasted, distastes, misstated, stateside, steadiest.
	+2 letters: defeatists, dissertate, mastitides, misstarted, vastitudes.
	+3 letters: anecdotists, apostatised, dissertated, dissertates, dissertator, distantness, distasteful, distillates, gastritides, pediatrists, stridulates, unsteadiest.
	+4 letters: adventurists, degustations, dermatitises, destinations, detestations, devastations, disinfestant, dissertating, dissertation, dissertators, domesticates, guesstimated, interstrands, metastasized, misestimated, necessitated, outdistances, resuscitated, stomatitides, systematised, systematized, taxidermists.
	+5 letters: administrates, anecdotalists, attitudinises, audiocassette, deviationists, dilettantisms, disinfectants, disinfestants, disintegrates, disorientates, disquantities, dissertations, distantnesses, distastefully, ditransitives, editorialists, educationists, interstadials, mastoiditides, mistranslated, predestinates, sacerdotalist, sophisticated, straightbreds, straightedges, substantiated, tradescantias, traditionless, videocassette.
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