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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From dis- +‎ relish.

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Examples

  • 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.

    2010 August « Motivated Grammar 2010

  • Perhaps as inversions abound generally in sonnets, it may be the principal cause of my disrelish for them.

    Letter 94 2009

  • 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

  • By this we distinguish objects of relish and disrelish, according to the seasons; and the same things do not always please us.

    On The Sacred Disease 2007

  • Thus when I taste wine, I feel blows; when I relish the one, I disrelish the other.

    Master Humphrey's Clock 2007

  • ‘Glubb,’ said Mrs Blimber, with a great disrelish.

    Dombey and Son 2007

  • 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.

    An Essay Concerning Human Understanding 2007

  • Thus when I taste wine, I feel blows; when I relish the one, I disrelish the other.

    Master Humphrey's Clock 2007

  • 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

  • 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

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  • I prefer to unrelish.

    December 4, 2008

  • The opposite of gladstonish.

    December 4, 2008

  • *Groans* That is truly awful. Sincere congratulations.

    December 4, 2008