Disbelief vs Distasteful - What's the difference?
disbelief | distasteful |
Unpreparedness, unwillingness, or inability to believe that something is the case.
Astonishment.
The loss or abandonment of a belief; cessation of belief.
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Having a bad or foul taste.
(figuratively) Unpleasant.
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As a noun disbelief
is unpreparedness, unwillingness, or inability to believe that something is the case.As an adjective distasteful is
having a bad or foul taste.disbelief
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Noun
- She cried out in disbelief on hearing that terrorists had crashed an airplane into the World Trade Center in New York City.
- I stared in disbelief at the Grand Canyon.
Synonyms
* incredulityReferences
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Alternative forms
* distastefull (archaic)Adjective
(en adjective)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill. It was ugly, gross. Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech. In the present connexion—or rather as a transition from the subject that started their conversation—such talk had been distressingly out of place.}}