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distasteful.

Having a bad or foul taste.

11 characters4 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

adj/dɪsˈteɪstfəɫ/UK
  1. Having a bad or foul taste.

    The food had very distasteful flavour.
  2. Unpleasant.

    figuratively
    Scrubbing the floors was a distasteful duty to perform.
  3. Offensive.

    distasteful language
Where this word comes from

From distaste + -ful or dis- + tasteful.

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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.