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Webster 1913 Edition
Disrelish
Dis-rel′ish
(?; see Dis-)
, Noun.
1.
Want of relish; dislike (of the palate or of the mind); distaste; a slight degree of disgust;
as, a
. disrelish
for some kinds of foodMen love to hear of their power, but have an extreme
disrelish
to be told of their duty. Burke.
2.
Absence of relishing or palatable quality; bad taste; nauseousness.
Milton.
Dis-rel′ish
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Disrelished
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Disrelishing
.] 1.
Not to relish; to regard as unpalatable or offensive; to feel a degree of disgust at.
Pope.
2.
To deprive of relish; to make nauseous or disgusting in a slight degree.
Milton.
Webster 1828 Edition
Disrelish
DISRELISH
,Noun.
1.
Distaste; dislike of the palate; some degree of disgust. Men generally have a disrelish for tobacco, till the taste is reconciled to it by custom.2.
Bad taste; nauseousness.3.
Distaste or dislike, in a figurative sense; dislike of the mind, or of the faculty by which beauty and excellence are perceived.DISRELISH
,Verb.
T.
1.
To dislike the taste of; as, to disrelish a particular kind of food.2.
To make nauseous or disgusting; to infect with a bad taste. [In this sense, I believe, the word is little used.]3.
To dislike; to feel some disgust at; as, to disrelish vulgar jests.Definition 2024
disrelish
disrelish
English
Noun
disrelish (uncountable)
- A lack of relish: distaste
- 1690, John Locke, An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume I.:
- Bread or tobacco may be neglected where they are shown to be useful to health, because of an indifferency or disrelish to them; reason and consideration at first recommends, and begins their trial, and use finds, or custom makes them pleasant.
- Burke
- Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told of their duty.
- 1819, John Keats, Otho the Great, Act IV, Scene II, verses 40-42
- […] that those eyes may glow
- With wooing light upon me, ere the Morn
- Peers with disrelish, grey, barren, and cold.
- 1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance, Faber & Faber 2004 (Avignon Quintet), p. 685:
- They heated up tinned food in a saucepan of hot water and ate it with sadness and disrelish, under the belief that they were economising.
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- Absence of relishing or palatable quality; bad taste; nauseousness.
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Verb
disrelish (third-person singular simple present disrelishes, present participle disrelishing, simple past and past participle disrelished)
- (transitive) To have no taste for; to reject as distasteful.
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- (transitive) To deprive of relish; to make nauseous or disgusting in a slight degree.
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