英和和英

語源

From distaste +‎ -ful or dis- +‎ tasteful.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /dɪsˈteɪstfəɫ/
• 韻: -eɪstfəl

形容詞

distasteful (comparative more distasteful, superlative most distasteful)

1. Having a bad or foul taste.

   Near-synonym: unpalatable

   The food had very distasteful flavour.

2. (figuratively) Unpleasant.

   Near-synonym: unpalatable

   Scrubbing the floors was a distasteful duty to perform.

   • 1642, Thomas Fuller, “The Good Herald”, in The Holy State, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Roger Daniel for John Williams, […], →OCLC, book II, paragraph 2, page 142:

     He imbitters not a diſtaſtfull meſſage to a forrein Prince by his indiſcretion in delivering it.

   • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXIV, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC, pages 198–199:

     All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill. It was ugly, gross. […] Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech. In the present connection—or rather as a transition from the subject that had started their conversation—such talk had been distressingly out of place.

3. Offensive.

   distasteful language

   • 1987 December 27, Kenneth J. Trask, “Stop Crossing Your Legs, Governor”, in Gay Community News, volume 15, number 24, page 5:

     AIDS is primarily a sexually transmitted disease and to not focus on the documented routes of transmission — however distasteful they may be to some legislators — is an ineffective and bigoted means of education by any standards.

反意語

• pleasant, pleasing

派生語

• distastefully
• distastefulness
• undistasteful

関連する語

• bad taste in one's mouth
• untasteful

参考

• disgusting