Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To have distaste for; dislike.
- noun Distaste; aversion.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To dislike the taste of; hence, to dislike for any reason; feel some antipathy to: as, to
disrelish a particular kind of food; to disrelish affectation. - To destroy the relish of or for; make unrelishing or distasteful.
- noun Dislike of the taste of something; hence, dislike in general; some degree of disgust or antipathy.
- noun Absence of relish; distastefulness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Want of relish; dislike (of the palate or of the mind); distaste; a slight degree of disgust.
- noun Absence of relishing or palatable quality; bad taste; nauseousness.
- transitive verb Not to relish; to regard as unpalatable or offensive; to feel a degree of disgust at.
- transitive verb To deprive of relish; to make nauseous or disgusting in a slight degree.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A lack of
relish :distaste - verb transitive To have no taste for; to reject as distasteful.
- verb transitive To deprive of relish; to make nauseous or disgusting in a slight degree.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Defect of substantial reasons must be compensated somehow; and no compensation for it is more obvious, or is oftener called into play, than an air of impatient contempt towards those who disrelish ipsedixitism.
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Perhaps as inversions abound generally in sonnets, it may be the principal cause of my disrelish for them.
Letter 94 2009
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Defect of substantial reasons must be compensated somehow; and no compensation for it is more obvious, or is oftener called into play, than an air of impatient contempt towards those who disrelish ipsedixitism.
“Recent exemplifications of false philology” « Motivated Grammar 2010
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By this we distinguish objects of relish and disrelish, according to the seasons; and the same things do not always please us.
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Thus when I taste wine, I feel blows; when I relish the one, I disrelish the other.
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‘Glubb,’ said Mrs Blimber, with a great disrelish.
Dombey and Son 2007
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Bread or tobacco may be neglected where they are shown to be useful to health, because of an indifferency or disrelish to them; reason and consideration at first recommends, and begins their trial, and use finds, or custom makes them pleasant.
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Thus when I taste wine, I feel blows; when I relish the one, I disrelish the other.
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And then she showed that her disrelish to cards was the effect of choice only; and that she was an easy mistress of every genteel game played with them.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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Ho! only this! it alludes to my disrelish to matrimony: Which is a bottomless pit, a gulph, and I know not what.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
whichbe commented on the word disrelish
I prefer to unrelish.
December 4, 2008
rolig commented on the word disrelish
The opposite of gladstonish.
December 4, 2008
vanishedone commented on the word disrelish
*Groans* That is truly awful. Sincere congratulations.
December 4, 2008