distasteful

English

Alternative forms

• distastefull (archaic)

Etymology

distaste +‎ -ful or dis- +‎ tasteful

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dɪsˈteɪstfəɫ/
• Rhymes: -eɪstfəl

Adjective

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.

   • 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

Antonyms

• pleasant, pleasing

Related terms

• bad taste in one's mouth
• untasteful

 

Translations

having a bad or foul taste

• Bashkir: тәмһеҙ (təmheź)
• Bulgarian: отвратителен (bg) (otvratitelen)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: pahanmakuinen (fi), vastenmielinen (fi)
• German: geschmacklos (de), widerwärtig (de)
• Manx: meevlaystal
• Maori: pāhare, matakawa, kūtaitai, kōtuhi
• Polish: niesmaczny (pl)
• Portuguese: desagradável (pt)
• Romanian: dezgustător (ro), neplăcut (ro) m
• Russian: отврати́тельный (ru) (otvratítelʹnyj), неприя́тный (ru) (neprijátnyj)
• Spanish: de mal gusto
• Swahili: karaha (sw)
• Swedish: illasmakande (sv), äcklig (sv)

unpleasant

• Bulgarian: неприятен (bg) (neprijaten), противен (bg) (protiven)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: vastenmielinen (fi), epämiellyttävä (fi), mauton (fi)
• French: désagréable (fr), déplaisant (fr)
• German: unangenehm (de), widerwärtig (de)
• Manx: meevianagh, meehaitnyssagh
• Maori: matakawa
• Polish: niesmaczny (pl), przykry (pl)
• Portuguese: desagradável (pt)
• Romanian: dezagreabil (ro), neplăcut (ro)
• Russian: неприя́тный (ru) (neprijátnyj), проти́вный (ru) (protívnyj)
• Spanish: desagradable (es)
• Swahili: karaha (sw)
• Swedish: smaklös (sv)

offensive

• Bulgarian: отблъскващ (bg) (otblǎskvašt)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: törkeä (fi), vastenmielinen (fi), loukkaava (fi), mauton (fi)
• French: de mauvais goût
• German: anstößig (de)
• Maori: pūkawa
• Plautdietsch: wadalich
• Portuguese: de mau gosto
• Romanian: ofensator (ro)
• Russian: оскорби́тельный (ru) (oskorbítelʹnyj)
• Spanish: chocante, ofensivo (es)
• Swahili: karaha (sw)
• Swedish: smaklös (sv), frånstötande (sv), osmaklig (sv)

See also

• disgusting