Word · Frequency #13910
distasteful
味道差的；难闻的
having an unpleasant smell or taste
- 1.
Having a bad or foul taste.
味道差的；难吃的
- 2.
Unpleasant.
令人不快的
- 3.
Offensive.
令人反感的
味道差的；难吃的；令人不快的；令人反感的；味道差的；使人不愉快的
In use
The sauce tasted distasteful, so I left most of it on my plate.
That fruit has a distasteful odor, but it is actually safe to eat.
I found the coffee distasteful because it was burnt.
be distasteful to sb
The proposal was distasteful to most committee members.
这个提议令大多数委员会成员反感。
find sth distasteful
I find his attitude towards women distasteful.
我觉得他对女性的态度令人不悦。
it is distasteful to do sth
Connections
Collocations
- find something distasteful
- 觉得某事令人反感
- He found the idea of working on weekends distasteful.他觉得周末工作的想法令人反感。
- a distasteful task
- 令人不快的任务
- Cleaning the bathroom is a distasteful task for most people.清理浴室对大多数人来说是一项令人不快的任务。
- be distasteful to someone
- 令某人反感
- The way he spoke was distasteful to her.他说话的方式令她反感。
- deeply distasteful
- 极其令人反感的
- She found the whole situation deeply distasteful.她觉得整个情况极其令人反感。
Synonyms
- disagreeable
- 令人不快的；不合意的 · 比 distasteful 稍显正式，语气较弱，多指使人感到不舒服或讨厌，但不一定涉及道德上的反感。
Learner notes
Memory Tip
把 taste 想成“味道”，dis 表示否定；味道怪到让人皱眉，就是 distasteful（令人不快的）。
Context & Register
语域：formal 常见场景：formal writing、official statements、critical reviews distasteful 多用于正式或书面语，表示“令人不快的、令人反感的”，语气较重；在日常口语中比较少见，更常说 unpleasant、nasty 或 disagreeable。
Pronunciation & Spelling
Tasteful and wasteful rhyme exactly with distasteful (/eɪstfəl/). Graceful, grateful, delightful, and beautiful share the spelling suffix -ful but do not rhyme with distasteful: their stressed vowels or following consonant clusters differ.
Dictionary facts from ECDICT, WIKTIONARY.