disrelish

UK/dɪsˈɹɛlɪʃ/

disrelish noun: a lack of relish: distaste.

Noun

disrelish (uncountable)

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.1690, John Locke, An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, volume I
- The only reason he did not rise in the Church, we are told, was the envy of others, and a disrelish entertained of him1728, [Alexander Pope], “Book the First”, in The Dunciad. An Heroic Poem. […], Dublin; London: […] A. Dodd, →OCLC, page 3
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...1674, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. […], 2nd edition, London: […] S[amuel] Simmons […], →OCLC, page 268

disrelish (third-person singular simple present disrelishes, present participle disrelishing, simple past and past participle disrelished)

(transitive) 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
(transitive) 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 thirſt1674, John Milton, “Book V”, in Paradise Lost. […], 2nd edition, London: […] S[amuel] Simmons […], →OCLC, page 126

சுவைக்கேடு

The residents live principally upon this most delicious fish which fortunately can be eaten a long time without disrelish.1818, John Franklin, The Journey to the Polar Sea:
Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told of their duty.1791, Edmund Burke, Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs:
"I have no other malice against the race, Signore, than the wholesome disrelish of a Christian.1872, J. Fenimore Cooper, The Bravo:
They heated up tinned food in a saucepan of hot water and ate it with sadness and disrelish, under the belief that they were economising.1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 685:

third-person singular present	disrelishes
present participle	disrelishing
past participle	disrelished
past	disrelished

From dis- + relish.

What does disrelish mean?: Disrelish means a lack of relish: distaste.
What is disrelish in Tamil?: Disrelish in Tamil is சுவைக்கேடு. See Disrelish meaning in Tamil.
How do you use disrelish in a sentence?: The residents live principally upon this most delicious fish which fortunately can be eaten a long time without disrelish.
What part of speech is disrelish?: Disrelish can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce disrelish?: Disrelish is pronounced /dɪsˈɹɛlɪʃ/ (UK).

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