Antonyms for distaste
dɪsˈteɪstdis·taste

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1. distaste

   Antipathy, repugnance, and uncongeniality are instinctive; other forms of dislike may be acquired or cherished for cause. Uncongeniality is negative, a want of touch or sympathy. An antipathy to a person or thing is an instinctive recoil from connection or association with that person or thing, and may be physical or mental, or both. Antagonism may result from the necessity of circumstances; opposition may spring from conflicting views or interests; abhorrence and detestation may be the result of religious and moral training; distaste and disgust may be acquired; aversion is a deep and permanent dislike. A natural antipathy may give rise to opposition which may result in hatred and hostility. Compare ACRIMONY; ANGER; ENMITY; HATRED.

   Antonyms:
   affinity, agreement, attraction, congeniality, fellow-feeling, harmony, kindliness, regard, sympathy

   Synonyms:
   abhorrence, antagonism, antipathy, aversion, detestation, disgust, dislike, hatred, hostility, opposition, repugnance, repulsion, uncongeniality

   Preposition:
   Antipathy to (less frequently for or against) a person or thing; antipathy between or betwixt two persons or things.

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1. • Dislike

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. antipathy, aversion, distastenoun

   a feeling of intense dislike

   Synonyms:
   antipathy, aversion, averting

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1. distastenoun

   Antonyms:
   taste, liking, relish

   Synonyms:
   aversion, dislike, disrelish

How to use distaste in a sentence?

1. Kahlil Gibran:

   If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.

2. Cate Blanchett:

   They're very devoted to one another, they traveled to war zones together, they've been in hurricanes together, they've been in newsrooms together and I think they have shared distaste for hypocrisy and bullies.

3. Sun Tzu:

   If our soldiers are not overburdened with money, it is not because they have a distaste for riches; if their lives are not unduly long, it is not because they are disinclined to longevity.

4. RAS CARDO REGGAE:

   hypocrites,- they master the art of concealing their distaste for others, while they invent lies to keep their biases and corrupt prejudices alive.

5. Kahlil Gibran:

   Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

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