distaste
Americannoun
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dislike; disinclination.
- Synonyms:
- disgust, repugnance, aversion
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dislike for food or drink.
verb (used with object)
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distastes,
present (3rd person singular)
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distasted,
past participle, past
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distasting
present participle
noun
verb
Synonym Usage
See dislike.
Other Word Forms
Inflected Forms
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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distastesimple
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distastessimple
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have distastedperfect
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has distastedperfect
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am distastingprogressive
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are distastingprogressive
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is distastingprogressive
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have been distastingperfect progressive
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has been distastingperfect progressive
Past
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distastedsimple
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had distastedperfect
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was distastingprogressive
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were distastingprogressive
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had been distastingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of distaste
Explanation
When you're disgusted by something, or simply dislike it, you have a distaste for it. You might have such a distaste for the smell of meat cooking that you only go to vegetarian restaurants. Some people have a distaste for living in the suburbs, while others feel distaste at the thought of living packed into a large city with millions of other people. You might have a distaste for the sport of boxing, while your boxing-loving cousin's distaste is for ice dancing and synchronized swimming. When something's just not your taste — you don't care for it — you can say you have a distaste for it.
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Example Sentences
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Wiseman says the show has yet to specifically talk about Bram Stoker’s bloodthirsty Count Dracula, but Port says the Halloween episode will discuss the coven’s distaste for vampire stereotypes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026
You have been clear about your distaste for the new F1 engine rules this year and at the Japanese Grand Prix you said: 'Is it worth it?'
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
“To the contrary, we have repeatedly held that mere offense, disagreement, or distaste does not qualify as a concrete and particularized injury under Article III” of the Constitution.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
Our friends were always surprised at our distaste for nuptials.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
And at the same time, keeping pace with these longings, our distaste for the city grew and grew and became a sweeping, pervading hatred.
From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya
The stoops of brownstone Brooklyn, on which residents routinely leave freebies for passers-by, are a reliable metric of current literary tastes — and distastes.
From New York Times ● Apr. 23, 2023
With no one else's tastes or distastes or allergies to consider, I discovered new rhythms and flavors.
From Salon ● Dec. 30, 2022
Surveys of previous generations found that people tended to share both their preferences and vehement distastes with other members of their social classes and backgrounds.
From Slate ● Feb. 25, 2020
Given your expressed distastes, I will point you toward monosyllabic denotations of cylindrical solidity.
From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2014
Gerda opened her lips to impart something, but remembered her father's distastes and refrained.
From Dangerous Ages by Dame Rose Macaulay
That you sent no lading in the ship is wonderfull, and worthily distasted.
From Bradford's History of 'Plimoth Plantation' From the Original Manuscript. With a Report of the Proceedings Incident to the Return of the Manuscript to Massachusetts by William Bradford
Lieutenant Coffin of Company A was a busy officer, active as a jumping-jack, half liked and half distasted by the men.
From The Long Roll by Mary Johnston
He paused and added, "To be quite honest, I dare say I distasted the job and shirked it."
From Lady Good-for-Nothing by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
No trial; no condemnation; no execution; and that which I then most distasted, no definite knowledge of what should be my fate.
From With Ring of Shield by Knox Magee
There was a man waiting us in Prestongrange’s study, whom I distasted at the first look, as we distaste a ferret or an earwig.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 11 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
But now behold another grub-hunter, which, distasting mud, has discovered an unworked mine in the trunks of trees.
From Concerning Animals and Other Matters by Edward Hamilton Aitken
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