taste — OAT · Shobdo

taste

noun

1 a blue cheese with a distinctive sharp taste:

flavor, savor, relish, tang, smack.

2 would you care for a taste of brandy?:

mouthful, drop, bit, spoonful, sample, sip, nip, swallow, touch, sprinkle, trickle, soupçon;

dash, pinch, morsel, bite, nibble, tidbit, shred, modicum.

3 it was a bit sweet for my taste:

palate, sense of taste, taste buds, appetite, stomach.

4 a millionairess with a taste for adventure:

liking, love, fondness, fancy, desire, preference, penchant, predilection, inclination, partiality, leaning, bent, disposition, proneness;

hankering, appetite, thirst, hunger, relish, soft spot, weakness.

▷antonyms dislike.

5 it was then that I had my first taste of prison:

experience, impression, sample;

exposure to, contact with, involvement with, familiarity with, participation in.

6 the house was furnished with taste:

judgment, discrimination, discernment, tastefulness, cultivation, culture, refinement, polish, finesse, elegance, grace, style, stylishness.

▷antonyms tastelessness.

7 we may reject advertisements on grounds of taste:

decorum, propriety, correctness, etiquette, politeness, tact, tactfulness, diplomacy, delicacy, nicety, sensitivity, discretion, tastefulness;

French politesse.

verb

1 Adam tasted the wine and nodded to the waiter:

sample, test, try, check, examine, savor;

sip, sup, nibble.

2 he could taste the blood in his mouth:

perceive, discern, make out, distinguish, differentiate.

3 a kind of beer that tasted of cashews:

have a flavor, savor, smack, be reminiscent;

suggest.

4 it'll be good to taste real coffee again:

consume, drink, eat, partake of, devour.

5 he tasted defeat for the first time:

experience, undergo, encounter, meet, come face to face with, come up against;

know, have knowledge of, sample, try.

word links	taste
gustation, gustatory relating to the sense of taste