disrelish
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /dɪsˈɹɛlɪʃ/
Noun
disrelish (uncountable)
- A lack of relish: distaste
- 1690, John Locke, An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume I.:
- 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.
- Burke
- Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told of their duty.
- 1819, John Keats, Otho the Great, Act IV, Scene II, verses 40-42
- […] that those eyes may glow
- With wooing light upon me, ere the Morn
- Peers with disrelish, grey, barren, and cold.
- 1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance, Faber & Faber 2004 (Avignon Quintet), p. 685:
- They heated up tinned food in a saucepan of hot water and ate it with sadness and disrelish, under the belief that they were economising.
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- Absence of relishing or palatable quality; bad taste; nauseousness.
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Verb
disrelish (third-person singular simple present disrelishes, present participle disrelishing, simple past and past participle disrelished)
- (transitive) To have no taste for; to reject as distasteful.
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- (transitive) To deprive of relish; to make nauseous or disgusting in a slight degree.
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