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distasteful

adj
/dɪsˈteɪstfəɫ/UK

Etymology

From distaste + -ful or dis- + tasteful.

  1. derived from *teh₂g-✻
  2. derived from taxo
  3. derived from *tastāre✻
  4. derived from taster
  5. inherited from tasten
  6. prefixed as distaste — “dis + taste”
  7. suffixed as distasteful — “distaste + ful”

Definitions

  1. Having a bad or foul taste.

    • Near-synonym: unpalatable
    • The food had very distasteful flavour.

  2. Unpleasant.

    • Near-synonym: unpalatable
    • Scrubbing the floors was a distasteful duty to perform.
    • He imbitters not a diſtaſtfull meſſage to a forrein Prince by his indiſcretion in delivering it.

  3. Offensive.

    • distasteful language
    • AIDS is primarily a sexually transmitted disease and to not focus on the documented routes of transmission — however distasteful they may be to some legislators — is an ineffective and bigoted means of education by any standards.

The neighborhood

Derived

distastefully, distastefulness, undistasteful

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at distasteful. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at distasteful. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at distasteful

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA