DISTASTE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does distaste mean? 

• DISTASTE (noun)
  The noun DISTASTE has 1 sense:

1. a feeling of intense dislike

  Familiarity information: DISTASTE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISTASTE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A feeling of intense dislike

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Synonyms:

antipathy; aversion; distaste

Hypernyms ("distaste" is a kind of...):

dislike (a feeling of aversion or antipathy)

 Context examples 

Till you chose to turn her into a friend, her mind had no distaste for her own set, nor any ambition beyond it.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

The contrast between this and her last breakfast in that room gave her fresh misery, and strengthened her distaste for everything before her.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

But tonight there was a shudder in his blood; the face of Hyde sat heavy on his memory; he felt (what was rare with him) a nausea and distaste of life; and in the gloom of his spirits, he seemed to read a menace in the flickering of the firelight on the polished cabinets and the uneasy starting of the shadow on the roof.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

A youth passed in solitude, my best years spent under your gentle and feminine fosterage, has so refined the groundwork of my character that I cannot overcome an intense distaste to the usual brutality exercised on board ship: I have never believed it to be necessary, and when I heard of a mariner equally noted for his kindliness of heart and the respect and obedience paid to him by his crew, I felt myself peculiarly fortunate in being able to secure his services.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

She learnt a year, and could not bear it; and Mrs. Morland, who did not insist on her daughters being accomplished in spite of incapacity or distaste, allowed her to leave off.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

At the time, I set it down to some idiosyncratic, personal distaste, and merely wondered at the acuteness of the symptoms; but I have since had reason to believe the cause to lie much deeper in the nature of man, and to turn on some nobler hinge than the principle of hatred.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

"Anyhow he gives large parties," said Jordan, changing the subject with an urbane distaste for the concrete. "And I like large parties. They're so intimate. At small parties there isn't any privacy."

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)