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Webster 1913 Edition
Distasteful
Dis-taste′ful
,Adj.
1.
Unpleasant or disgusting to the taste; nauseous; loathsome.
2.
Offensive; displeasing to the feelings; disagreeable;
as, a
. distasteful
truthDistasteful
answer, and sometimes unfriendly actions. Milton.
Dis-taste′ful-ly
, adv.
Dis-taste′ful-ness
, Noun.
Webster 1828 Edition
Distasteful
DISTASTEFUL
,Adj.
1.
Nauseous; unpleasant or disgusting to the taste.2.
Offensive; displeasing; as a distasteful truth.3.
Malevolent; as distasteful looks.Definition 2024
distasteful
distasteful
English
Alternative forms
- distastefull (archaic)
Adjective
distasteful (comparative more distasteful, superlative most distasteful)
- Having a bad or foul taste.
- (figuratively) Unpleasant.
- 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 12, in The Mirror and the Lamp:
- All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill. It was ugly, gross. Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech. In the present connexion—or rather as a transition from the subject that started their conversation—such talk had been distressingly out of place.
- Scrubbing the floors was a distasteful duty to perform.
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- Offensive.
- distasteful language
Antonyms
Translations
having a bad or foul taste
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unpleasant
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offensive