distaste Meaning, Definition & Usage

Aversion of the taste; dislike, as of food or drink; disrelish. Bacon.
Discomfort; uneasiness.
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. Bacon.
Alienation of affection; displeasure; anger.
On the part of Heaven, Now alienated, distance and distaste. Milton.
Syn. -- Disrelish; disinclination; dislike; aversion; displeasure; dissatisfaction; disgust.

imperfect & past participle Distasted; present participle & verbal noun Distasting

Not to have relish or taste for; to disrelish; to loathe; to dislike.
Although my will distaste what it elected. Shak.
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.
To deprive of taste or relish; to make unsavory or distasteful. Drayton.

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.