adj
Meaning 1
Having a bad or foul taste.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- Near-synonym: unpalatable
- The food had very distasteful flavour.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: unpalatable
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
distasteful
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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UK: /dɪsˈteɪstfəɫ/
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rhymes with -eɪstfəl
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CMU ARPABET: D IH0 S T EY1 S T F AH0 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adj
Meaning 2
Unpleasant.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: figuratively
Examples
- Near-synonym: unpalatable
- Scrubbing the floors was a distasteful duty to perform.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: unpalatable
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 3
Offensive.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- distasteful language
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 4
highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- a disgusting smell
- distasteful language
- a loathsome disease
- the idea of eating meat is repellent to me
- revolting food
- a wicked stench
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: disgusting, disgustful, foul, loathly, loathsome, repellent, repellant, repelling, revolting, skanky, wicked, yucky
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 5
not pleasing in odor or taste
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: unsavory, unsavoury
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
From distaste + -ful or dis- + tasteful.
Across languages
Translations
77 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bashkir: тәмһеҙ (təmheź) — having a bad or foul taste
- Bulgarian: отвратителен (otvratitelen) — having a bad or foul taste
- Chinese Mandarin: 難吃的 /难吃的 (nánchī de) — having a bad or foul taste
- Danish: ulækker — having a bad or foul taste
- Danish: ækel — having a bad or foul taste
- Danish: væmmelig — having a bad or foul taste
- Finnish: pahanmakuinen — having a bad or foul taste
- Finnish: vastenmielinen — having a bad or foul taste
- German: geschmacklos — having a bad or foul taste
- German: widerwärtig — having a bad or foul taste
- Manx: meevlaystal — having a bad or foul taste
- Māori: pāhare — having a bad or foul taste
- Māori: matakawa — having a bad or foul taste
- Māori: kūtaitai — having a bad or foul taste
- Māori: kōtuhi — having a bad or foul taste
- Polish: niesmaczny — having a bad or foul taste
- Portuguese: desagradável — having a bad or foul taste
- Romanian: dezgustător — having a bad or foul taste
- Romanian: neplăcut — having a bad or foul taste
- Russian: отврати́тельный (otvratítelʹnyj) — having a bad or foul taste
- Russian: неприя́тный (neprijátnyj) — having a bad or foul taste
- Spanish: desagradable — having a bad or foul taste
- Spanish: disgustoso — having a bad or foul taste
- Swahili: karaha — having a bad or foul taste
- Swedish: illasmakande — having a bad or foul taste
- Swedish: äcklig — having a bad or foul taste
- Turkish: tatsız — having a bad or foul taste
- Bulgarian: неприятен (neprijaten) — unpleasant
- Bulgarian: противен (protiven) — unpleasant
- Chinese Mandarin: 令人不快的 (lìngrén bùkuài de) — unpleasant
- Danish: smagløs — unpleasant
- Finnish: vastenmielinen — unpleasant
- Finnish: epämiellyttävä — unpleasant
- Finnish: mauton — unpleasant
- French: désagréable — unpleasant
- French: déplaisant — unpleasant
- German: unangenehm — unpleasant
- German: widerwärtig — unpleasant
- Manx: meevianagh — unpleasant
- Manx: meehaitnyssagh — unpleasant
- Māori: matakawa — unpleasant
- Polish: niesmaczny — unpleasant
- Polish: przykry — unpleasant
- Portuguese: desagradável — unpleasant
- Romanian: dezagreabil — unpleasant
- Romanian: neplăcut — unpleasant
- Russian: неприя́тный (neprijátnyj) — unpleasant
- Russian: проти́вный (protívnyj) — unpleasant
- Spanish: desagradable — unpleasant
- Swahili: karaha — unpleasant
- Swedish: smaklös — unpleasant
- Turkish: tatsız — unpleasant
- Turkish: nahoş — unpleasant
- Bulgarian: отблъскващ (otblǎskvašt) — offensive
- Chinese Mandarin: 無禮的 /无礼的 (wúlǐ de) — offensive
- Chinese Mandarin: 冒犯性的 (màofànxìng de) — offensive
- Danish: modbydelig — offensive
- Danish: smagløs — offensive
- Danish: afskyelig — offensive
- Danish: frastødende — offensive
- Finnish: törkeä — offensive
- Finnish: vastenmielinen — offensive
- Finnish: loukkaava — offensive
- Finnish: mauton — offensive
- French: de mauvais goût — offensive
- German: anstößig — offensive
- Māori: pūkawa — offensive
- Plautdietsch: wadalich — offensive
- Portuguese: de mau gosto — offensive
- Romanian: ofensator — offensive
- Russian: оскорби́тельный (oskorbítelʹnyj) — offensive
- Spanish: chocante — offensive
- Spanish: ofensivo — offensive
- Swahili: karaha — offensive
- Swedish: smaklös — offensive
- Swedish: frånstötande — offensive
- Swedish: osmaklig — offensive