Distasteful

Definition: Distasteful

Distasteful

Adjective

1. Not pleasing in odor or taste.

2. Highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust; "a disgusting smell"; "distasteful language"; "a loathsome disease"; "the idea of eating meat is repellent to me"; "revolting food"; "a wicked stench".

Date "distasteful" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1415. (references)

Synonyms: Distasteful

Synonyms: disgustful (adj), disgusting (adj), foul (adj), loathly (adj), loathsome (adj), repellant (adj), repellent (adj), repelling (adj), revolting (adj), unsavory (adj), unsavoury (adj), wicked (adj), yucky (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Pain	Adjective: causing pain, hurting; Verb: hurtful; (bad); painful; dolorific, dolorous; unpleasant; unpleasing, displeasing; disagreeable, unpalatable, bitter, distasteful; uninviting; unwelcome; undesirable, undesired; obnoxious; unacceptable, unpopular, thankless.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Distasteful

English words defined with "distasteful": bugbane ♦ distastefully, dodging ♦ escape, evasion ♦ Ingrateful ♦ League offensive and defensive ♦ unsweet. (references)

Specialty definitions using "distasteful": Abbess ♦ Coal-hod, Cocoa, Committee ♦ Epidemic ♦ Luggage ♦ Museum ♦ Preacher ♦ Sardines, Sheet Iron. (references)

Domain

Usage

Screenplays

The only consequence of all this will be, that whenever I open a nice Bordeaux, there will be the distant, distasteful memory of a nutcase who tried to kill me because I allowed her to kiss me on the cheek under false pretenses. (Northern Exposure; writing credit: Khadijah Hashim)

I studied the foul language section in your Memory Warehouse. Rather distasteful, I must say (Dreamcatcher; writing credit: William Goldman)

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Domain	Title
Books	Distasteful, Disgusting, Dirty Jokes-stolen from the internet (reference) The Haunted Tea Cosy : A Dispirited and Distasteful Diversion for Christmas (reference) (more book examples)
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Play	Caption
	Displeasure; displease; displeasing; distaste; distasteful; rancor; disgust; bitter; unpleasant; dislike; disliking.
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Author	Quotation
William Hazlitt	Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.
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Title	Author	Quote
Tangled Tale	Carroll, Lewis	No doubt, to one who thus rebels against the rules laid down for her guidance, the word must be distasteful.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Human Rights	Panama	In addition, PNP officers are untrained for prison duty and generally find the assignment distasteful which contributes to tension and abuses within the prison system. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Distasteful" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 99.10% of the time. "Distasteful" is used about 221 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
Adjective (general or positive)	99.1%	219	20,419
Noun (proper)	0.9%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	221	N/A

Expression using "distasteful": be distasteful to. Additional references.
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Language		Translations for "distasteful"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		i papëlqyeshëm (bitter, disagreeable, harsh, indecent, invidious, nasty, undesirable), i pakëndshëm (awkward, bad, disgustful, disgusting, dreary, grating, hard, ill-favored, ill-favoured, nasty, objectionable, repellent, ugly, unattractive, uncongenial, ungrateful, unlovable, unpalatable, unpleasant, unpresentable, unsightly, warm). (various references)

Arabic		‏كريه (abhorrent, abominable, accursed, atrocious, bad, brackish, cursed, detestable, disagreeable, foul, frightful, hateful, horrible, loathsome, nasty, objectionable, odious, offensive, out of favor, out of favour, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, seamy, sickening, sour, ugly, unattractive, unpleasant, unwholesome, wicked), ‏مشمئز (abhorrent, disgusted, loath, nauseated, revolted), ‏بغيض (abominable, accursed, antipathetic, beastly, blasted, cursed, damned, detestable, dreadful, forbidding, frightful, hateful, horrid, impossible, nasty, noxious, objectionable, obnoxious, odious, out of favor, out of favour, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, sticky, ungrateful, unhappy, unlikely, unpalatable, unpleasant, unsavory, unsavoury, unwelcome, villainous). (various references)

Bulgarian		отвратителен (abhorrent, abominable, accursed, accurst, atrocious, awful, beastly, bestial, carrion, creepy, cursed, damnable, detestable, disgustful, disgusting, execrable, foul, fulsome, gruesome, hateful, heinous, hideous, horrible, ill-favored, ill-favoured, infamous, loathsome, lousy, miserable, morbid, nasty, nauseous, noisome, odious, offensive, punk, putrid, rank, repellent, revolting, rotten, septic, shocking, sickening, ugly, unholy, unsavory, unsavoury, unspeakable, villainous, wicked), неприятен (annoying, chronic, clammy, disagreeable, displeasing, hairy, hideous, hoggish, inconvenient, invidious, irksome, nasty, objectionable, painful, plaguesome, plaguy, repugnant, sour, tiresome, troublesome, ugly, unagreeable, unappetizing, uncongenial, uncool, undesirable, ungracious, ungrateful, unpalatable, unpleasant, untoward, unwelcome, vinegary, wicked). (various references)

Chinese		难吃. (various references)

Czech		odporný (abhorrent, abominable, bad, detestable, disgustful, disgusting, foul, hateful, horrible, loathsome, nasty, nauseous, noisome, obnoxious, odious, offensive, queasy, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, sickening, stinking, unsavory, verminous, vile), nechutný (disgusting, mawkish, odious, pasty, repulsive, revolting, unappetizing, unpalatable, unsavory). (various references)

Finnish		epämiellyttävä (disagreeable, displeasing, unattractive, unpleasant). (various references)

French		désagréable (disagreeable, dismal), déplaisant. (various references)

German		widerwärtig (adverse, alien, bleak, contrary, despicable, detestable, disgusting, dismal, distastefully, dreary, ghastly, grisly, horrible, nasty, objectionable, obnoxious, obnoxiously, offensive, repulsive, ugly, unsavorily, unsavory, unsavourily, unsavoury). (various references)

Greek		αηδιαστικόσ (disgusting, loathful, loathsome, nasty, nauseous, queasy, repulsive, sicking). (various references)

Hebrew		לא � עים (bad, disagreeable, unpleasant). (various references)

Hungarian		utálatos (abhorrent, abominable, alien, awful, detestable, dismal, dreary, execrable, ghastly, groaty, grotty, gruesome, hateful, hideous, horrible, loathful, loathsome, monstrous, nasty, nauseating, obnoxious, odious, poisonous, rank), undorító (abominable, carrion, disgustful, disgusting, fulsome, groaty, grotty, grovelling, hideous, loathful, loathsome, mucky, nauseating, nauseous, pooping, queasy, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, smarmy, ugly), rossz ízű (unpalatable, unsavory, unsavoury). (various references)

Indonesian		tak disukai (disfavor, unpopular). (various references)

Italian		sgradevole (bad, bleak, disagreeable, dismal, dreary, ghastly, grisly, horrible, invidious, nasty, objectionable, obnoxious, unpalatable, unpleasant, unsavory, unsavoury, unsightly), ripugnante (abhorrent, disgusting, dislikable, hideous, loathful, loathsome, obnoxious, offensive, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, unsavory, unsavoury), repellente (grim, repellent, repulsive). (various references)

Manx		meevlaystal, meevianagh, meechaitnyssagh. (various references)

Pig Latin		istastefulday

Portuguese		desagradável (bad, beastly, bleak, brackish, crabbed, desagreeable, disagreeable, disgusting, dismal, displeasing, dreadful, dreary, fearful, forbidding, foul, frightful, ghastly, grisly, horrible, invidious, nasty, objectionable, obnoxious, offensive, repellent, seamy, ugly, uncomfortable, uncongenial, undesirable, ungrateful, unlovely, unpleasant, unsavory, unsavoury, unthankful, untoward, unwelcome, unwished). (various references)

Romanian		dezagreabil (disagreeable, displeasing, unfriendly, unpleasant). (various references)

Russian		неприятный (disagreeable, dislikable, displeasing, galling, ill-favored, ill-favoured, nasty, objectionable, obnoxious, plaguesome, plaguy, repellent, rotten, ugly customer, unagreeable, unfavorable, unfavourable, ungrateful, unlovable, unlovely, unpalatable, unpleasant, wampus), противный (antipathetic, antipathetical, cross, disagreeable, disgustful, disgusting, displeasing, horrible, horrid, loathful, loathsome, mucky, nasty, obnoxious, poisonous, unlovely). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		neukusan (flashy, insipid, tasteless, unappetizing, unpalatable, unsavory, unsavoury). (various references)

Spanish		desagradable (bloody minded, disagreeable, displeasing, nasty, objectionable, obnoxious, ornery, painful, unpleasant, unpleasing, unsavory, unsavoury). (various references)

Swedish		osmaklig (disgusting, unsavory, unsavoury). (various references)

Turkish		tatsız (arid, chippy, disagreeable, dull, dusty, flat, flavorless, flavourless, frail, insipid, milk and water, objectionable, queasy, savorless, savourless, sticky, tame, tasteless, ugly, unamusing, uncomfortable, uncongenial, ungracious, unpalatable, unpleasant, unsweetened, unwelcome, vapid, watery), nahoş (disagreeable, displeasing, graceless, grating, repellent, repelling, unlikable, unlikeable, unpleasant), iğrenç (abhorrent, abominable, accursed, accurst, cloying, crying, damn, damned, detestable, dirty, disgusting, dread, dreadfull, execrable, filthy, foul, frightful, ghoulish, god-awful, grievous, hatable, hateable, hateful, heinous, hideous, horrible, horrid, infernal, loathsome, lousy, mangy, mawkish, nasty, nauseous, noisome, obnoxious, odious, offensive, putrid, rancid, rank, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, scummy, shocking, sick, sickening, sickly, slimy, squirmy, stinking, ugly, vile, villainous, yuck), antipatik (as cool as cucumber, repulsive). (various references)

Ukrainian		непри�"мний (acerbic, bad, beastly, brackish, disagreeable, displeased, displeasing, grisly, hack, importune, nasty, objectionable, obnoxious, offensive, painful, plaguy, poor, provoking, snooty, tedious, ugly, unfavorable, unfavourable, ungracious, ungrateful, unlovable, unloveable, unlovely, unpleasant, unwelcome). (various references)

Vietnamese		khó chịu (accursed, accurst, annoyed, beastly, colour, devil, disagreeable, displeasing, incommodious, nasty, noisome, obnoxious, obtrusive, plaguesome, queer, tiresome, unacceptable, unpleasant, unpleasing, vile, vinegar), đáng ghét; ghê tởm. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	odiosa, odiosae, odiosam, odiosum, odiosus. (various references)
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Derivations
	Words beginning with "distasteful": distastefully, distastefulness, distastefulnesses. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Distasteful" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: distasetful, distastefull, distateful. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "distasteful" (pronounced di'stā"stful)
7	-t ā" s t f u l	tasteful.
6	-ā" s t f u l	wasteful.
5	-s t f u l	boastful, distrustful, fistful, lustful, mistrustful, restful, wistful, zestful.
4	-t f u l	artful, deceitful, delightful, disrespectful, doubtful, eventful, fateful, fitful, forgetful, fretful, frightful, fruitful, grateful, hateful, hurtful, insightful, neglectful, regretful, resentful, respectful, rightful, spiteful, tactful, thoughtful, uneventful, ungrateful.
3	-f u l	apocryphal, awful, baffle, baleful, bashful, beautiful, blissful, bountiful, careful, cheerful, colorful, disdainful, disgraceful, doleful, dreadful, duffel, dutiful, faithful, falafel, fanciful, fearful, flavorful, forceful, gainful, gleeful, graceful, harmful, healthful, helpful, hopeful, houseful, joyful, kerfuffle, lawful, masterful, meaningful, merciful, mindful, mournful, muffle, needful, painful, panful, peaceful, pitiful, playful, plentiful, powerful, prayerful, purposeful, raffle, remorseful, reshuffle, resourceful, riffle, rifle, rueful, ruffle, scornful, scuffle, shameful, shuffle, sinful, skillful, sorrowful, soulful, stifle, stressful, successful, suspenseful, tearful, thankful, trifle, triumphal, truffle, truthful, tuneful, unfaithful, unhealthful, unhelpful, unlawful, unsuccessful, untruthful, useful, vengeful, waffle, watchful, willful, wishful, woeful, wonderful, worshipful, wrongful, youthful.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-e-f-i-l-s-s-t-t-u"
	-1 letter: feudalists.
	-2 letters: altitudes, faultiest, feudalist, flautists, lassitude, latitudes, studliest.
	-3 letters: altitude, defaults, distaste, dualists, duelists, dustiest, feudists, fistulae, fistulas, flatuses, flautist, flutiest, flutists, fustiest, latitude, leftists, lustiest, saltiest, situated, situates, slatiest, staidest, stedfast, sulfated, sulfates, sulfides, sulfites, tasteful.
	-4 letters: aidless, audiles, auldest, daftest, dauties, default, delists, desalts, details, dilates, dilutes, disseat, dualist, duelist, falsest.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-e-f-i-l-s-s-t-t-u"
	+2 letters: distastefully.
	+4 letters: distastefulness, fundamentalists.
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