Synonyms 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.

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

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

   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. antipathy, aversion, distastenoun

   a feeling of intense dislike

   Synonyms:
   antipathy, aversion, averting

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1. • Dislike

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1. distastenoun

   Synonyms:
   disrelish, disinclination, aversion, dislike, repugnance, disgust, displeasure, dissatisfaction

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1. distastenoun

   Synonyms:
   aversion, dislike, disrelish

   Antonyms:
   taste, liking, relish

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1. List of paraphrases for "distaste":

   disgust, displeasure

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1. 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.

2. Anonymous:

   Debugging is anticipated with distaste, performed with reluctance, and bragged about forever.

3. Senator Aitzaz Ahsan:

   I have a visceral distaste for military courts, but the safeguards provided and the state of war we are in justifies it.

4. 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.

5. 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.