| 单词 | distasteful |
| 释义 | distasteful (once / 1727 pages) adj Things that you find disagreeable or unpleasant are distasteful. A distasteful movie might disturb you so much that you leave the theater before it's over. While certain kinds of food might be distasteful to you — overcooked vegetables, for example — you can find non-edible things just as distasteful, despite the taste within the word. This adjective uses the sense of taste that means "preference" or "tendency to like something," along with the prefix dis-, "not" or "the opposite of." You can, for example, find things like greed and cruelty to be just as distasteful as overcooked broccoli. WORD FAMILYdistasteful: distastefully, distastefulness+/distaste: distastes/foretaste: foretastes/taste: distaste, foretaste, tasted, tasteful, tasteless, taster, tastes, tasting, tasty/tasted: untasted/tasteful: distasteful, tastefully, tastefulness/tasteless: tastelessly, tastelessness/taster: tasters/tasting: tastings/tasty: tastier, tastiest, tastily, tastiness USAGE EXAMPLESOn Tuesday, the “Girls” star apologized on Instagram for what she called “a distasteful joke.” Seattle Times(Dec 21, 2016) It’s hard to picture the Rams, who just fired coach Jeff Fisher following an equally distasteful loss to Atlanta, getting in Seattle’s way. Washington Times(Dec 14, 2016) I found the celebrating of his death distasteful. The Guardian(Nov 29, 2016) 1adj highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust distasteful language Syn disgustful, disgusting, foul, loathly, loathsome, repellant, repellent, repelling, revolting, skanky, wicked, yucky offensive unpleasant or disgusting especially to the senses 2adj not pleasing in odor or taste Syn unsavory, unsavoury unpalatable not pleasant or acceptable to the taste or mind |
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