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untaste

/ʌnˈteɪst/

untaste verb: to deprive of taste.

Verb

untaste (third-person singular simple present untastes, present participle untasting, simple past and past participle untasted)

  1. To deprive of taste.
    • […]Vntaſte them of this violent diſguſt;1609, Samuel Daniel, “The Eightth Booke”, in The Civile Wares betweene the Howses of Lancaster and Yorke […], London: […] [Humphrey Lownes for] Simon Watersonne, →OCLC, stanza 83, page 224
  2. (transitive) To lose, cancel out, or forget the taste of; reverse the tasting of
    • “Ugh! Ugh and double-ugh!” Elsa was trying to wipe dough off her face and away from her mouth. “I am never going to untaste that. Never!2015, Zanzibar 7 Schwarznegger, Veneri Verbum - Page 73
    • He spat in the dirt, trying to untaste the idea.2015, Holly Black, Doll Bones - Page 40

Noun

untaste (uncountable)

  1. Absence or lack of taste (all senses); tastelessness
    • Those years comprise (among other drolleries) a complete reversal of public untaste; "nonobjective art", once anathematized, being now de rigeur.1964, Charles Norman, E. E. Cummings: the magic-maker - Page 267
    • Moreover, from untaste to unknowing, from unknowing to non-possession, from non-possession to non-being, there is an obvious progress, but in negativity.1988, George Henry Tavard, Poetry and contemplation in St. John of the Cross - Page 66

Forms of untaste

third-person singular presentuntastes
present participleuntasting
past participleuntasted
pastuntasted

Origin of untaste

From un- + taste.

From un- (“absence of”) + taste.

Words that rhyme with untaste

23 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about untaste

What does untaste mean?
Untaste means to deprive of taste.
What part of speech is untaste?
Untaste can be a verb or a noun.
How do you pronounce untaste?
Untaste is pronounced /ʌnˈteɪst/.
What is the past tense of untaste?
The past tense of untaste is untasted.

Words near untaste in the dictionary

  1. untars
  2. untasked
  3. untasseled
  4. untasselled
  5. untastable
  6. untaste
  7. untasteable
  8. untasted
  9. untasteful
  10. untastefully
  11. untastefulness

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