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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Distaste \Dis*taste"\, verb (used without an object) 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 The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Distaste \Dis*taste"\, noun
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 The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Distaste \Dis*taste"\, verb (used with an object) [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 WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
distaste
noun: a feeling of intense dislike [syn: {antipathy}, {aversion}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
86 Moby Thesaurus words for "distaste": abhorrence, antipathy, averseness, aversion, backwardness, bad books, ban, blackball, blackballing, complaint, cursoriness, dim view, disaffection, disaffinity, disagreement, disappointment, disapprobation, disapproval, discontent, discontentedness, discontentment, disenchantment, disesteem, disfavor, disgruntlement, disgust, disillusion, disillusionment, disinclination, dislike, disliking, disobedience, displeasure, disrelish, disrespect, dissatisfaction, dissent, exclusion, foot-dragging, fractiousness, grudging consent, grudgingness, horror, hostility, indignation, indisposedness, indisposition, indocility, intractableness, lack of enthusiasm, lack of zeal, loathing, low estimation, low opinion, mutinousness, nausea, nolition, objection, obstinacy, opposition, opposure, ostracism, perfunctoriness, protest, recalcitrance, recalcitrancy, refractoriness, refusal, rejection, reluctance, renitence, renitency, repugnance, repulsion, resistance, revulsion, slowness, stubbornness, sulk, sulkiness, sulks, sullenness, thumbs-down, unenthusiasm, unhappiness, unwillingness
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