disrelish
/dɪsˈɹɛlɪʃ/
Etymology
From dis- + relish.
disrelish means A lack of relish: distaste. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
disrelish is pronounced /dɪsˈɹɛlɪʃ/.
noun
- A lack of relish: distaste“Bread or tobacco may be neglected where they are shown to be useful to health, because of an indifferency or disrelish to them; reason and consideration at first recommends, and begins their trial, and use finds, or custom makes them pleasant.”
- Absence of relishing or palatable quality; bad taste; nauseousness.“[T]hey fonldy thinking to allay / Thir appetite with guſt, inſtead of Fruit / Chewd bitter Aſhes, which th'offended taſte / With ſpattering noiſe rejected: oft they aſſayd, / Hunger and thrift conſtraining, drugd as oft, / With hatefulleſt diſreliſh writh'd thir jaws / With ſoot and cinders fill'd [...]”
verb
- To have no taste for; to reject as distasteful.“September 1, 1733, Alexander Pope, letter to Jonathan Swift
Everybody is so concerned for the public, that all private enjoyments are lost or disrelished”
- To deprive of relish; to make nauseous or disgusting in a slight degree.“And Eve within, due at her hour prepar'd / For dinner favourie fruits, of taſte to pleaſe / True appetite, and not diſreliſh thirſt”