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DISTASTEFUL
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust
Example:
a wicked stench
Synonyms:
disgustful; disgusting; distasteful; foul; loathly; loathsome; repellant; repellent; repelling; revolting; skanky; wicked; yucky
Classified under:
Similar:
offensive (unpleasant or disgusting especially to the senses)
Derivation:
distastefulness (the quality of being offensive)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Not pleasing in odor or taste
Synonyms:
distasteful; unsavory; unsavoury
Classified under:
Similar:
unpalatable (not pleasant or acceptable to the taste or mind)
Derivation:
distastefulness (extreme unpalatability to the mouth)
Context examples:
Their mode of life, which had once been his, was now distasteful to him.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
I could no longer talk or laugh freely when he was by, because a tiresomely importunate instinct reminded me that vivacity (at least in me) was distasteful to him.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Brooms and dishcloths never could be as distasteful as they once had been, for Beth had presided over both, and something of her housewifely spirit seemed to linger around the little mop and the old brush, never thrown away.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
It was the first time that the lawyer had been received in that part of his friend’s quarters; and he eyed the dingy, windowless structure with curiosity, and gazed round with a distasteful sense of strangeness as he crossed the theatre, once crowded with eager students and now lying gaunt and silent, the tables laden with chemical apparatus, the floor strewn with crates and littered with packing straw, and the light falling dimly through the foggy cupola.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Distasteful! and like you again!
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
The suggestion was distasteful to Gatsby.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
