Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: distasteful
IPA transcription: [dɪst'eɪstfəl]
adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: disgusting, disgustful, distasteful, foul, loathly, loathsome, repellent, repellant, repelling, revolting, skanky, wicked, yucky
    Meaning: highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust; "a disgusting smell"; "distasteful language"; "a loathsome disease"; "the idea of eating meat is repellent to me"; "revolting food"; "a wicked stench"
  • Synonyms: distasteful, unsavory, unsavoury
    Meaning: not pleasing in odor or taste
Usage examples
  • And let me think my love is not distasteful to you.
  • Such a mode is "labor," which becomes at times painful and distasteful.
  • But that idea of tying himself down to a household was in itself distasteful to him.
  • This counsel was very distasteful to me, but I thought I could not do otherwise than adopt it.
  • Brooms and dishcloths never could be as distasteful as they once had been, for Beth had presided over both, and something of her housewifely spirit seemed to linger around the little mop and the old brush, never thrown away.
  • Conspicuous colours are likewise beneficial to many animals as a warning to their would-be devourers that they are distasteful, or that they possess some special means of defence; but this subject will be discussed more conveniently hereafter.
  • "If he wants a cat, a cat he shall have," I said to myself, and calling my unwelcome guest to me with a resolute determination to do my duty by the beast, no matter how distasteful the task, I was just putting a saucer of milk in front of her when the door opened and Dicky came in like a whirlwind.