Indisposition vs Distaste - What's the difference?
indisposition | distaste | Related terms |
a mild illness, the state of being indisposed
* 1751, Henry Fielding, Amelia
a bad mood or disposition
* 1597, Francis Bacon, Essays
A feeling of dislike, aversion or antipathy.
(obsolete) Aversion of the taste; dislike, as of food or drink; disrelish.
(obsolete) Discomfort; uneasiness.
* Francis Bacon
Alienation of affection; displeasure; anger.
* Milton
(obsolete) To dislike.
* , Scene 2.
* , II.4.1.i:
to be distasteful; to taste bad
* , Scene 3.
(obsolete) To offend; to disgust; to displease.
* Sir J. Davies
(obsolete) To deprive of taste or relish; to make unsavory or distasteful.
As nouns the difference between indisposition and distaste
is that indisposition is a mild illness, the state of being indisposed while distaste is a feeling of dislike, aversion or antipathy.As a verb distaste is
to dislike.indisposition
English
Noun
(en noun)- I was scarce sooner recovered from my indisposition than Amelia herself fell ill.
- Doth any man doubt, that if there were taken out of men's minds, vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds, of a number of men, poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition , and unpleasing to themselves?
distaste
English
Noun
(-)- (Francis Bacon)
- Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes , and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.
- On the part of Heaven, / Now alienated, distance and distaste .
Derived terms
* distastefulVerb
(distast)- Although my will distaste what it elected
- the Romans distasted them so much, that they were often banished out of their city, as Pliny and Celsus relate, for 600 yeers not admitted.
- Dangerous conceits are, in their natures, poisons. / Which at the first are scarce found to distaste ,
- He thought it no policy to distaste the English or Irish by a course of reformation, but sought to please them.
- (Drayton)