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Distasteful vs Gruelling - What's the difference?

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Distasteful is a related term of gruelling.


As adjectives the difference between distasteful and gruelling

is that distasteful is having a bad or foul taste while gruelling is so difficult or taxing as to make one exhausted; backbreaking.

distasteful

English

Alternative forms

* distastefull (archaic)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Having a bad or foul taste.
  • (figuratively) Unpleasant.
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    • , title= 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.}}
  • Offensive.

    • Antonyms

    * pleasant, pleasing

    gruelling

    English

    Alternative forms

    * grueling

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • So difficult or taxing as to make one exhausted; backbreaking.

    • Synonyms

    * (so difficult or taxing as to make one exhausted) backbreaking, exhausting