单词 | unrelishable |
释义 | unrelishableadj. That cannot be relished; flavourless; unpalatable. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > unsavouriness > [adjective] uglyc1540 grievous1578 naughty1578 unrelishable1603 unrelishing1611 unsapory1638 insapory1665 1603 A. Munday in tr. F. Citois True Hist. Mayden of Confolens Ep. Ded. sig. 2 ¶ If the brackish deuider of our Continents, make it not vnrellish-able in your tastes, the queasie stomacks of others I shall the lesse care for. 1694 tr. O. G. de Busbecq Four Epist. conc. Embassy into Turkey i. 86 When it first begins to ferment, if you taste it, 'tis over-sweet, and that makes it more unrelishable. 1764 A. Purver New & Literal Transl. Bks. Old & New Test. I. (Job vi. 6) 607/2 Is an unrelishable Thing eat without Salt? 1862 F. W. Pavy Researches on Nature & Treatm. Diabetes iii. 148 The bran food cannot be looked upon as otherwise than a dry and unrelishable article for consumption. 1931 C. R. Shaw & M. E. Moore Nat. Hist. Delinquent Career xi. 200 The food was unrelishable and only hunger could force anyone to eat it. 2004 Daily News (N.Y.) (Nexis) 31 Mar. 35 Pretending to relish an unrelishable holiday menu is just one of the onerous duties of high office in the Jewish State. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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