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Synonyms for distasteful
dɪsˈteɪst fəldis·taste·ful
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Wiktionary
English Synonyms and Antonyms
distasteful
Synonyms:
clumsy, coarse, deformed, disgusting, displeasing, fulsome, gaudy, grotesque, harsh, hideous, horrid, inartistic, inharmonious, meretricious, offensive, rough, rude, rugged, tawdryAntonyms:
artistic, chaste, dainty, delicate, delicious, elegant, esthetic, esthetical, exquisite, fastidious, fine, nice, tasteful, tasty
Princeton's WordNet
distasteful, unsavory, unsavouryadjective
not pleasing in odor or taste
Synonyms:
loathly, unsavory, disgustful, disgusting, yucky, unsavoury, offensive, wicked, revolting, loathsome, foul, repelling, repellant, repellent, skankyAntonyms:
toothsome, palatable, inoffensivedisgusting, disgustful, distasteful, foul, loathly, loathsome, repellent, repellant, repelling, revolting, skanky, wicked, yuckyadjective
highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust
"a disgusting smell"; "distasteful language"; "a loathsome disease"; "the idea of eating meat is repellent to me"; "revolting food"; "a wicked stench"
Synonyms:
filthy, noisome, fetid, nauseous, revolting, nauseating, marked-up, foul, implike, repellent, mischievous, arch, sickening, dirty, unsavoury, offensive, cruddy, rebarbative, ill-scented, foetid, vile, severe, sinful, pixilated, disgustful, stinking, resistant, disgusting, afoul(ip), smelly, cheating(a), foul-smelling, loathsome, prankish, wicked, yucky, unsportsmanlike, unholy, skanky, nasty, unsporting, terrible, impish, funky, smutty, repelling, loathly, unsavory, fouled, puckish, queasy, repellantAntonyms:
palatable, toothsome, inoffensive
Dictionary of English Synonymes
distastefuladjective
Synonyms:
nauseous, loathsome, disgusting, unpalatable, unsavorydistastefuladjective
Synonyms:
disagreeable, offensive, unpleasant, unpleasing
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
distastefuladjective
Synonyms:
unpleasant offensive, repugnant, unpalatable, unsavory, disagreeable
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "distasteful":
unpleasant, tasteless, tacky, disagreeable, repugnant, disgusting, unsavoury, repulsive, off-putting
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#3964 | severe | |
#4328 | dirty | |
#5548 | rough | |
#5709 | resistant | |
#6146 | arch | |
#6274 | offensive | |
#6918 | terrible | |
#7683 | nasty | |
#8459 | wicked | |
#9379 | funky | |
#9718 | foul | |
#11437 | harsh | |
#12142 | rugged | |
#12199 | rude | |
#14475 | coarse | |
#18616 | unpleasant | |
#19359 | filthy | |
#21931 | disgusting | |
#24206 | sinful | |
#27379 | vile | |
#28746 | repellent | |
#28776 | clumsy | |
#30005 | smelly | |
#30944 | deformed | |
#30977 | hideous | |
#32970 | tasteless | |
#34224 | unholy | |
#36903 | grotesque | |
#37348 | horrid | |
#38672 | tacky | |
#42256 | mischievous | |
#42658 | fouled | |
#43152 | repulsive | |
#45047 | stinking | |
#48458 | sickening | |
#55326 | repugnant | |
#55808 | disagreeable | |
#56411 | distasteful | |
#58305 | revolting | |
#59182 | gaudy | |
#62396 | repellant | |
#65966 | loathsome | |
#75889 | unsavory | |
#77749 | yucky | |
#80214 | repelling | |
#81217 | nauseous | |
#83921 | skanky | |
#86575 | queasy | |
#94915 | nauseating | |
#100861 | tawdry | |
#104208 | unsportsmanlike | |
#116654 | fetid | |
#125214 | impish | |
#140999 | smutty | |
#142674 | displeasing | |
#143949 | unsavoury | |
#160064 | cruddy | |
#162489 | fulsome | |
#190598 | unsporting | |
#209600 | meretricious | |
#227568 | noisome | |
#231163 | pixilated | |
#294990 | inharmonious | |
#305377 | puckish |
How to use distasteful in a sentence?
Immigration Studies analyst Jessica Vaughan:
We're creating a group of sort of pseudo citizens who live overseas, but can take advantage of the fact that they are U.S. citizens on paper, there is no question this is a threat to our national interest at worst. At best, it is something very distasteful because it cheapens U.S. citizenship.
White House spokesman Josh Earnest:
Even expressions that are offensive, that are distasteful, and intended to sow divisions in an otherwise tight-knit, diverse community like Phoenix, cannot be used as a justification to carry out an act of violence, and certainly can't be used as a justification to carry out an act of terrorism.
I don't like the word' stealthing.' It sounds like something tricky and distasteful, but kind of like a fad, by calling it nonconsensual condom removal, we make clear what the harm is.
All the Israelis felt this was very distasteful.
As a Jew who has lost so many relatives in the Holocaust, they looked like the showers that the Jews were forced to take before entering the gas chambers, all the Israelis felt this was very distasteful.
Translations for distasteful
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- неприятен, противен, отвратителен, отблъскващBulgarian
- unangenehm, anstößig, widerwärtig, geschmacklosGerman
- ofensivo, chocante, [[de]] [[mal]] [[gusto]], desagradableSpanish
- törkeä, epämiellyttävä, pahanmakuinenFinnish
- déplaisant, désagréableFrench
- meehaitnyssagh, meevianagh, meevlaystalManx
- pūkawa, kūtaitai, pāhare, matakawaMāori
- niesmaczny, przykryPolish
- dezagreabil, ofensator, neplăcut, dezgustătorRomanian
- противный, неприятный, отвратительный, оскорбительныйRussian
- smaklös, frånstötande, osmaklig, äcklig, illasmakandeSwedish
- karahaSwahili
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